Waitangi Tribunal - Part 5 Te Urewera [pdf, 2.1 MB]
...extensively during the negotiations that led to the lease after being raised by the owners as an issue . The Crown formed the view that ‘It can be argued that payment for past use, injurious affection etc, is unreal as the Maori owners have sustained negligible loss from such past use’ . The Crown considers that insufficient evidence has been presented to the Tribunal concerning past use of, or injurious affection to, land that leads the Crown to change these views . . . . All re...