between the Hauraki claims and the claims of Tauranga Moana in our Tauranga raupatu report.⁹ The Wai 100 claimants state that these three claims are ‘for all material purposes to be treated as if they are part of the comprehensive Wai 100 Hauraki claim’.¹⁰

In 1998, the HMTB lodged a further claim with the Tribunal in respect of the proposal to turn Tikapa Moana into a national marine park (Wai 728). That proposal became a reality in 2000 with the passing of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act. In 2001, the claim went to urgency before the Waitangi Tribunal, which found that no prejudice had been established from the passing of the 2000 Act.¹¹

In addition to the Wai 100 and associated claims, counsel for Wai 100 said that the following claimant groups had given the HMTB a mandate to prosecute Wai 100 on their behalf, in addition to their specific claims: Ngeungeu Te Irirangi Zister concerning the Wairoa and Otau blocks (Wai 96); Rebecca Fleet concerning Ngati Hei lands (Wai 110); Ngaruna Ronald Mikaere concerning the Manaia school site (Wai 148); Patricia Bailey concerning Nga Whanau o Omahu claim (Wai 174); Shane Ashby and others concerning the Manaia block claims (Wai 285); Rikiriki Rakena and others concerning the Waikawau purchase claim (Wai 418); Gavin Kaird and others concerning the Pakirarahi 1 block (Wai 464); Shane Ashby and others concerning the Wharekawa East 2 block (Wai 661); and Denis Tanengapuia Te Rangiawhina Mokena concerning Te Aroha lands (Wai 663).¹²

In her opening evidence at the first hearing of the Hauraki claims in September 1998, the then chief executive officer of the HMTB, Josephine Marama Anderson, commented on the ‘rich diversity amongst the ensemble of Hauraki tribes’. She continued:

The various waves of occupation of Hauraki whenua, and associated political alliances, wars, deprivations and triumphs have produced this diversity, and out of this landscape have emerged autonomous entities, every one of them unique in terms of their world view, yet inextricably bound to the other by the land and by whakapapa. Ko tenei te kupenga nui o Hauraki, this is the great net of Hauraki.¹³

Later in her submission, Ms Anderson added that the trust board ‘sits at the feet of the Hauraki tribes’.¹⁴ We take this to mean that, despite the fact that some Hauraki hapu and iwi chose to put in claims separately from the HMTB, and despite the tension that might have arisen as a result, the trust board is anxious to serve the whole district by promoting unity amongst all Hauraki Maori and to work for a shared outcome. We support and endorse this aim.

9. Waitangi Tribunal, Te Raupatu 0 Tauranga Moana: Report on the Tauranga Confiscation Claims (Wellington: Legislation Direct, 2004), pp 2, 16-17; doc A51, pp 4-5

10. Claim 1.3; doc A5, p 24

11. Waitangi Tribunal, The Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Report (Wellington: Legislation Direct, 2001), p 44

12. Document A51, pp 5-6

13. Document A74, para 9

14. Ibid, para 29