BORA Ngai Tai ki Tamaki Claims Settlement Bill [pdf, 5 MB]
...1866 and 1871, approximately 16 000 acres of the approximately 20 000 acres awarded to Ngai Tai by the Native Land Court was sold. Through- out the late 19th and 20th centuries most of Ngai Tai's remaining lands were alienated to the Crown and private purchasers. (10) For Ngai Tai, the loss of communal ancestral lands had a severe impact on their traditional tribal structure. Families left landless or with uneconomic land blocks had insufficient means to support themselves. From the...