Waitangi Tribunal - District 11 Hawkes Bay [pdf, 4.8 MB]
...aspirations ofMaori and European in the development of Hawke's Bay for the years between 1865 and 1873. Attention during this period was focused on the constitution of the Native Land Court, the European-style court charged with the function to investigate title to Maori customary land, and award certificates oftitle to the Maori owners of blocks. Its first hearings were held in Hawke' s Bay in March 1866. Alienations of prime land on the Ahuriri-Heretaunga Plains, and elsewhere...