Foreword

iii

Preface

vii

SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT

1

PART I   INTRODUCTION

5

1841-1901: An Economy Transformed

5

Scope of this Report

6

PART II HAURAKI IWI

9

Chapter 1 Natural and Cultural Influences upon Hauraki Iwi in

Pre-European Times

9

The Physical Setting

9

A Region of Convergence and Contention

9

Chapter 2 The First Economic Relationship, pre c.1860:

A Retrospective Overview

11

Webster of Waiau: a case study

11

Maori as economic partners in early Auckland

12

Extent of Hauraki participation in trade with the capital

12

The souring of a relationship, 1850s

13

Chapter 3 The Second Economic Relationship, 1861 Onwards:

A Prospective Overview

15

Why Absorption in the Western Economic System Corroded

Maori Society

15

Influences which worked to disadvantage Maori

15

A reckoning: were these influences likely to conduce to an

equally beneficial partnership ?

19

Chapter 4 The Coromandel Episode, 1852-53: An Economic Perspective

21

How the Coromandel rush foreshadowed later problems

21

Conflict of interest in role of Crown

22

Economic pressure in Auckland to have local goldfields opened

22

Chapter 5 The Timber Industry within Hauraki Rohe

25

The Pakeha side of the equation

25

Dimensions of the Hauraki timber industry

25