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Throughout New Zealand the government had confiscated areas clearly unsuitable for settlement: in Taranaki, they had taken the whole of Mt Taranaki, [7] while in the Bay of Plenty they had confiscated Mt Putauaki, the whole of the Rangitaiki Swamp [10] and other areas of thick bush. Military settlers ultimately took less than 1 per cent of land ...
The act was the culmination of years of negotiations between Waikato Tainui and the New Zealand Government. [2] Originally, Waikato-Tainui had made a claim by way of the Waitangi Tribunal, but in 1991 direct negotiations began between the tribe and the government of Prime Minister Jim Bolger. [3] In 1994, a Heads of Agreement was signed. [3]
The New Zealand Settlements Act was passed in December 1863 and in 1865 Governor Grey confiscated more than 480,000 hectares of land from the Waikato–Tainui iwi (tribe) in the Waikato as punishment for their earlier "rebellion".
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The settlement was accompanied by a formal apology as part of the claims legislation, granted Royal assent by Queen Elizabeth II in person during her 1995 Royal tour of New Zealand. The Crown apologised for the Invasion of the Waikato and the subsequent indiscriminate confiscation of land.
The Suppression of Rebellion Act 1863 is a piece of New Zealand legislation, passed in 1863, which greatly increased the punitive actions allowed against Māori, including execution and penal servitude, by those authorised by the New Zealand Governor. [1] Passed on the same day as the New Zealand Settlements Act 1863, the Suppression of ...