THE CROWN, THE TREATY, AND THE HAURAKI TRIBES, 1880-1980

`bear their portion'. While they would not be required to pay for the cost of survey, the expense would be a charge on the land and would be paid by the purchaser when the land was sold. Taipari refused to agree to Bryce's terms and now declined to furnish anyone to point out the boundary on the ground.98

The Government insisted that survey should go ahead, short of active obstruction by Taipari.99 In dealing with opponents, the Native Land Purchase Department attempted to manipulate and then to intimidate Taipari to ensure that the Government's objects were achieved. Efforts to cut a line in early 1883 were, however, immediately halted by Horomona. Advising that Horomona's obstruction derived from kingite principles rather than the question of survey liens, Wilkinson recommended:

I would suggest that Hon Native Minister either communicate with Taipari and Hoani Nahe himself; or instruct me to do so, informing them that as he belongs to their tribe they had better restrain him, as, having again broken the law the consequences may be serious to

The Government took a firm line. Bryce condemned Taipari for the survival of kingite influence in the district and pressured him to quell Horomona's objections:

A friend I am grieved to hear of obstruction to survey in your District. [I]t is said to be by a man who does it on account of being an adherent of the King. I thought there was an end of nonsense like this in your district [W]hy should trouble arise out of foolishness like this. [I]t is your place as an Assessor of the Govt to use your influence to suppress a foolish proceeding as this is. [I]f the man persists in his folly the law must take its course with

him.101

In the following month Percy Smith instructed his surveyor to take a copy of Bryce's telegraph to Horomona and:

When on the ground give the Natives formal notice of your intention to carry on the survey and say that if any obstruction occurs the law will be put in force against them. Be sure to obtain names of any who obstruct in the future so that they can be summoned. If interfered with again report to me.102

Contrary to expectation, Taipari continued to withhold his co-operation. Lewis told Taipari, who had visited him about the matter, that it was his duty as a chief of Ngati Maru and a paid officer of the Government to use his influence to stop Horomona's unlawful obstruction. According to Lewis:

After fencing the question for some time [Taipari] plainly stated that Horomona's action was not as a Kingite but as a Chief and representative of the Ngatimaru and that the survey was obstructed because the Govt would not pay for it as arranged. I told him that this was still more serious because it involved the whole tribe including himself in the breach of the law that if they had a grievance they could address you by letter but that Ngatimaru had acted very wrongly in stopping the survey. I asked him what he was going to do. [H]e said he could do nothing. ... In total I think I have made him understand the serious position

98 Wilkinson to Gill, 27.1.83. NLP 83/41 in ibid.

99 Gill to Native Minister, 28.1.83, NLP 83/54; Wilkinson to Under Secretary Native Department, 23.2.83, NLP 83/1215. In ibid.

100 Wilkinson to Lewis, 27.2.8

NLP 83/1216. In ibid. Doc. 4, p. 22.

101 Bryce to Lewis, 28.2.83 NLP 83/1216. In ibid. Doc. 4, pp. 23-24.

102 Percy Smith to Jackson, 1.3.83. NLP 83/1216. Ibid.

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