Waitangi Tribunal - He Whiritaunoka (Whanganui) chapter 28 [pdf, 857 KB]
...also hefty. evidence shows that Māori obliged to stay in Wanganui for protracted hearings suf fered increased disease, deprivation, drunkenness, and even deaths. While the social costs were experienced variably, some people did suffer, and such human misery should not have been a corollary of reforming land title. Most unfortunate of all is the fact that the titles that Māori obtained through the land court system usually did not afford them the benefits that they looked for, and wh...