CONTENTS

FOREWORD    III

PREFACE    VII
INTRODUCTION AND CHAPTER SUMMARY

CHAPTER ONE: GOVERNMENT POLICY AND

MAO RI REACTION, 1880–1890   21

Maori Concerns and Government Reaction    21

1. The search for control: Native Committees and the Native Land Court   22

2.  Public works: friction at 24

Crown Purchasing, 1880–1890   27

1. Introduction .. 27

2.  Te Aroha hot springs and township    31

3. Purchase of the gold field blocks

4.  The purchase of Piako

5.  Summary discussion    53

CHAPTER TWO: CROWN POLICY AND

MAORI ASPIRATION, 1890–1914   55

1. Native Land Laws Commission, 1891

2.  Crown purchase in the Hauraki peninsula lands

3. The impact of court and survey costs in the Hauraki Plains    63

Maori Land Settlement Act 1905

The Stout Ngata Commission   85

CHAPTER THREE: RESERVES AND REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS ON ALIENATION, 1880–1909

The Creation of 'Reserves'   91

The Removal of Restrictions: Policy and Practice   93

Removal of Restrictions at Te Aroha, Ohinemuri, Waikawau, and Moehau    101

Conclusion ..   106

CHAPTER FOUR: IMPACT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY                  109

Impact of Mining on Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers 109

Drainage of the Hauraki Plains    118

CHAPTER FIVE: HAURAKI LAND AND RATES, 1870–1970   129
CHAPTER SIX: HAURAKI IWI AND THE GOLD FIELDS, 1890–1980 141

Administration of Gold Field Revenues, 1885–1900   142

Timber Revenues on Ohinemuri No. 20 F   144