THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION OF HAURAKI MAORI AFTER COLONISATION

economic conditions, attention will be paid to the employment opportunities open to Hauraki Maori. However, the basic economic situation is the loss of land, the major economic resource. The process of land alienation has already been broadly described here and is covered in greater detail in other reports. To provide an essential background to these topics, an outline of the demographic history of Hauraki Maori is set out in the following section.

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