Te Manutukutuku Issue 4 [pdf, 3 MB]
...1953. Forest lands The Crown is also selling the exotic forests. Claims to the Tribunal concerning these forest lands are also 'protected' in a similar way to lands in the ownership of state-owned enterprises. The Crown will only seU a licence to cut trees to the buyers of the forests, but the land under the forest may still be returned to Maori claimants if the Tribunal orders this. If the Tribunal orders the return of the land under a forest licence, this return will take...