Waitangi Tribunal - issue 57 of Te Manutukutuku [pdf, 571 KB]
...access to mahinga kai (food gathering areas), and adjoining Mäori land. Objections were over- ruled, and all inshore space has now been allocated. Claimant Mr Chris Love maintains that: “In declining any of our applications for marine farm licences, the MDC has effectively relegated Te Atiawa to being just another interest group operating under their system of First In First “The sense of grievance that surrounds the loss from Mäori to private ownership of such a large area o...