The Hauraki Treaty Claims comprise four separate claims managed by the Hauraki Maori Trust Board. These are WAI 100, WAI 373, WAI 374and WAI 650. They were filed between 1987 and 1996 under the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975.
The WAI 100 claim is a comprehensive and overarching claim covering all of the traditional Hauraki rohe (territory). It was filed in 1987 by the late Mr Huhurere Tukukino and 35 tribal members. He subsequently asked the Hauraki Maori Trust Board to bring this claim before the Waitangi Tribunal on behalf of himself and all the Hauraki people.
Since then the Board, in its own right, has lodged three specific claims regarding the lands and forests at Maramarua and Athenree as well as railway land in central Auckland. The revised statement of claim set out in Chapter Two elaborates and refines the four claims mentioned above.
The key issues of the WAI 100 claim are:
land confiscation in the east Wairoa block on the western side of the Firth of Thames, near Maramarua and the Piako, near Te Aroha and Katikati;
Crown policies operated through the Native Land Court to acquire the land, the pre-1865 and old land claims as well as various twentieth century practices including the Public Works Act;
ownership of all minerals, geothermal resources and hot springs, the failure to fulfil the terms of the original mining agreements including the recovery of financial compensation;
ownership and management of the foreshore;
the destruction of natural resource habitat such as streams, rivers and wetlands, and excessive pollution leading to destruction of traditional food sources;
the return of specific parcels of land such as Crown forests and other land taken under legislation such as the Public Works Act, and the Hauraki Plains Drainage Act, and for reclamation works, roads and other infrastructure services now no longer used for the original purpose;
the destruction of sacred places and the acquisition of Maori heritage or cultural property;
