region with a Resident Magistrate, H T Clarke, who was actively involved in the settlement of local disputes.

46.       Chapters Four, Five and Six relate to the conflict as it occurred in Tauranga in 1864. Dr Battersby places this conflict in its wider context: Waikato and the Eastern Bay of Plenty. Tauranga becomes involved in this conflict and the scene of hostilities.

47.       Chapter Seven addresses the events that follow from the conflict in Tauranga of April-June 1864. This includes the surrender by Tauranga Maori and the Pacification Hui.

48.       Chapter Eight relates to the Crown’s acquisition of the Te Puna Katikati lands. The Crown’s submission will be that the evidence shows a continued willingness of Maori to submit disputes to arbitration by government officials. The result of the arbitration is a re-negotiated transaction that includes a larger purchase price, a price per acre being fixed and 6,000 acres of reserves of prime harbour-front locations that Maori wished to on-sell to private buyers. The evidence points towards a willing sale of the Te Puna Katikati lands by Maori. Dr Battersby states

“Far from repudiating the sale, the Maori sellers wanted to hurry it to completion, and also appear to have managed both government and private purchasers to their advantage” (para

43,       page 159).

49.       Chapter Nine relates to the survey of Tauranga District and leads into the Bush Conflict which is addressed in Chapter Ten. In this respect it has been suggested that:

“The Government excuse for the campaign claimed that there was a threat of a general Hauhau uprising, and that Pirirakau were Hauhau, unsurrendered rebels and aggressors. There is little evidence of this. Pirirakau were fighting for their land and Government had refused to acknowledge their claims to it.” (Dame Evelyn Stokes, Wai 215 #A2, p 134).

50.       Dr Battersby however concludes that the situation was more complex. External influences, primarily the Ngati Porou Te Kaumarua, combined