Osborne - Tatawai Claim No 3 (2005) 110 South Island MB 136 (110 SI 136) [pdf, 1.4 MB]
...Tahu Ancillary Claims Trust, "The Otago people usually migrated to the Taieri Plain in late spring and early summer." 2 Lake Tatawai formed part of a seasonal migration for the purposes of gathering kai, particularly eels. But traditional resources were rapidly disappearing by the 1850s.3 And as early as 1860, the Taieri Lakes were silting up.' "By the 1870s, the trips from the Peninsula up to the Maniatoto Plains and Central Otago had been discontinued",' pe...