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List of Reports

Wai No	Report/Purongo
27	The Ngai Tahu Report 1991 This report concerns a claim about the Crown’s South Island land purchases. Read report summary >> Read full report >> Download as pdf >>
27	The Ngai Tahu Claim: Supplementary Report on Ngai Tahu Legal Personality This short supplementary report, put out as part of the Ngai Tahu inquiry, concerns Ngai Tahu’s proposals for tribal structures to enable them to conduct remedies negotiations with the Crown. Read report summary >> Read full report >> Download as pdf >>
27	The Ngai Tahu Sea Fisheries Report 1992 This report concerns a claim about Ngai Tahu’s fisheries. Read report summary >> Read full report >> Download as pdf >>
27	The Ngai Tahu Ancillary Claims Report 1995 This report concerns that 100 smaller ancillary claims that grew out of the Ngai Tahu inquiry. Read full report >> Download as pdf >>
34	Report on Proposed Sewage Scheme at Kakanui This very short report concerns a claim about the granting of a water right to the Waitaki County Council for the disposal of effluent from a proposed sewage scheme at Kakanui. Read report summary >> Read full report >> Download as pdf >>
64	Rekohu: A Report on Moriori and Ngati Mutunga Claims in the Chatham Islands The issues considered in the Rekohu Report are unique and complex, and a thorough reading of the entire report is necessary to gain a full understanding of the context of the claims and the ensuing recommendations of the Tribunal. The report looks closely at the period soon after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and the annexation of Rekohu in 1842. The Tribunal in the Chatham Islands inquiry was also asked to look at a number of contemporary issues including the Tribunal's jurisdiction, the status of Moriori and their right to make claims under the Treaty of Waitangi, health and education, conservation management, fishing, and the ownership of Te Whaanga lagoon. Read report summary >> Download as pdf >>
83	Report on the Waikawa Block This very short report concerns a claim about the Waikawa block. Read report summary >> Read full report >> Download as pdf >>
322	Report of the Waitangi Tribunal on the Tuhuru Claim In 1993, Sandra Lee and Tuhuru Tainui lodged a claim for themselves and the rangatira Tuhuru and his descendants which endeavoured to establish that a grievance would be caused by the passing of the proposed Ngai Tahu Bill. Read report summary >> Read full report >> Download as pdf >>
785	Te Tau Ihu o te Waka a Maui: Report on Northern South Island Claims This report concerns some 31 claims about the northern South Island. Read report summary >> Download as pdf >>
785	Te Tau Ihu o te Waka o Maui: Preliminary Report on Customary Rights in the Northern South Island This preliminary report concerns claims about the northern South Island. Download as pdf >>
785	Te Tau Ihu o te Waka a Maui: Preliminary Report on Te Tau Ihu Customary Rights in the Statutory Ngāi Tahu Takiwā The Northern South Island (Te Tau Ihu) Tribunal issued a preliminary report concerning the customary rights of six Te Tau Ihu iwi to in the area defined by Te Runanga o Ngāi Tahu Act 1996 as the Ngāi Tahu takiwā. The Tribunal found that the six iwi had valid customary rights in the takiwā;, overlapping the acknowledged rights of Ngāi Tahu, and that the Crown had committed multiple historical breaches of the Treaty in acquiring land and resources in which they had an interest. Further, in settling the Treaty claims of Ngāi Tahu the Crown had continued to ignore the overlapping interests of the six iwi. The Tribunal recommended that the Crown negotiate equitable compensation for any loss of interests incurred through the prior settlement with Ngāi Tahu. Read report summary >> Download as pdf >>
1090	The Waimumu Trust (SILNA) Report The claim Wai 1090 was brought in November 2003 by the trustees of the Waimumu Trust. The trust administers an area of 4440 hectares of indigenous forested land in 45 parcels in the Hokonui Hills in central Southland, granted by the Crown under the South Island Landless Natives Act 1906 (SILNA). Read report summary >> Read full report >> Download as pdf >>

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