Hauraki interests in lands at East Wairoa which had been declared as forfeited without justification
The premeditated use by the Crown of the Compensation Court process to subjugate so called "rebels" and the co-operation of government officials with the Native Land Court in the award of titles to lands adjacent to East Wairoa to "friendly" elements within the tribe to the utter exclusion of those named as "rebels", without the latter being given any chance to be heard.
The use of negotiated payments by the Crown to extinguish the interests of Hauraki iwi in Urangahauhau No. i and Whakakaiwhara and in the reserves which had been set aside from the Fairburn purchase.
The failure and or refusal of the Crown to ensure that Hauraki iwi had the means to attend hearings of the Compensation Court so as to force Hauraki to enter into out of court monetary settlements in respect of their interests in lands in central Waikato and Tauranga.
The practice adopted by Crown agents of treating payments to selected individuals as if such payments represented a complete extinguishment of broader tribal interests in the land.
(1) The failure and/or refusal of the Crown to acknowledge or address the claims of Hauraki whose lands were confiscated without justification and who received no compensation from the Crown.
Return of reserves
The failure and/or refusal of the Crown to adequately address the complaints of dispossessed Hauraki in respect of confiscated lands at Piako and Te Aroha.
The use by the Crown of promises to return "reserves" under the Confiscated Land Act 1867 as a means of submitting "rebels" to the Queens authority
The refusal of the Crown to expeditiously provide sufficient reserves for the subsistence needs of Hauraki iwi from whose land they had been dispossessed pursuant to Crown policy despite formal pleas by Hauraki iwi for such expeditious provision.
The eventual return by the Crown of only one small portion of the former lands of dispossessed Hauraki iwi at Piako, despite the numerous promises of Crown agents and after several decades of costly struggle.
3.4 Alienation of Thames foreshore and seabed
O friends, our hands, our feet, our bodies, are always on our places of the sea; the Wsh, the mussels, the shellfish are there. Our hands are holding onto those, extending even to the gold beneath. The men, the women, the children are united in this that they alone are to have control of all the places of the sea ...
(Petition of Te Moananui, 5 August 1869 cited in report of Committee on Thames Sea Beach Bill AJHR, 1869. F–7. App E p.18, doc. 61, p. 1416)
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