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Much of the land that was never occupied by settlers was later sold by the Crown. Māori anger and frustration over the land confiscations led to the rise of the messianic Hauhau movement of the Pai Mārire religion from 1864 and the outbreak of the Second Taranaki War and Tītokowaru's War throughout Taranaki between 1863 and 1869. Some land ...
Waitara is located just off State Highway 3, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northeast of New Plymouth. Waitara was the site of the outbreak of the Taranaki Wars in 1860 following the attempted purchase of land for British settlers from its Māori owners. Disputes over land that was subsequently confiscated by the Government continue to this day.
Governor Thomas Gore Browne.. The catalyst for the war was the disputed sale of 600 acres (2.4 km 2) of land known as the Pekapeka block, or Teira's block, at Waitara.The block's location perfectly suited European settlers' wish for a township and port to serve the north of the Taranaki district and its sale was viewed as a likely precedent for other sales that would open up for settlement all ...
[83] [84] The criticism was about the non-negotiable element of a fiscal cap as well as the amount ($1 billion) when Crown valuers assessed that the 1990 dollar loss to just Ngāi Tahu was 'between $12 billion and $15 billion' and the context of Government spending (for example the annual spending in 2018 (excluding capital investment) was ...
The Government claimed to have bought land at Waitotara in 1863, and in turn had sold more than 12,000 acres (49 km 2) in October 1864, but the sale was disputed by some Māori, who refused to leave. A secure route from Wanganui to Patea would form a key part of the Government's strategy for a thoroughfare between Wanganui and New Plymouth ...
Parihaka Maori settlement, Taranaki, New Zealand, c. 1880. The Parihaka settlement was founded about 1866, at the close of the Second Taranaki War and a year after almost all Māori land in Taranaki had been confiscated by the Government to punish "rebel" Māori.
The Arahura Deed was a land sale and agreement between Kāi Tahu iwi and James Mackay on behalf of the New Zealand settler government, signed on 21 May 1860 by Poutini chiefs at Māwhera (modern-day Greymouth). [1] Detail of the map, which includes nearly all of the West Coast north of Milford Sound (Piopiotahi)
The Crown (the New Zealand Government and state) in the early 2000s assessed Treaty of Waitangi settlements and established that the Native Lands Act 1865 was far reaching in creating unjust decisions and unjust land purchases by the Native Land Courts experienced by almost every iwi or hapū. [6]