(August 2006).¹⁸ It comes as no surprise to me that the ultimate conclusion of the report is that this:¹⁹

“ ... 2001 snapshot of the demographic and socio-economic status of Maori in the Tauranga inquiry district indicates that Maori were significantly disadvantaged in comparison with the total population in all the key socio-economic indicators relating to employment, occupation, income, educational qualifications and housing.”

34.         Also, of little surprise are the following demographic assessments in Ms Boulton’s report:

“Hauraki iwi were also relatively under represented for their geographical proximity to the inquiry district...”. [Page 43]

“... the largest proportion of iwi affiliation responses [in the 2001 census] featured Tauranga Moana & Bay of Plenty iwi with Northland & Auckland iwi in second position ...The third largest proportion of responses featured Rotorua & Taupo iwi ... Hauraki Iwi were markedly under represented for their geographical proximity to the inquiry district ... For their geographical distance from the inquiry district South Island & Chatham Island iwi were surprisingly strongly represented in responses from the Tauranga District.” [Pages 45 – 46]

[Emphasis added]

35.         So as for our people in the Hauraki Inquiry district, in the Tauranga Moana Inquiry district:

>       We are disproportionately poor compared to non-Maori.

>       I would not be surprised if we were also poor by comparison to non-Marutūāhu / Pare Hauraki Maori in the Tauranga Inquiry District (as confirmed to be so in the Hauraki Inquiry district).

>       We are demographically under represented in an area in which we have been confirmed to be tāngata whenua.²⁰ Indeed, there are far more non-tāngata whenua Maori in this district, ironically from the ends of the motu - Te Tai Tokerau and Te Waipounamu.

>       Thus, the post World War I diaspora of the Marutūāhu people occurred from the Tauranga Moana Inquiry district, just as it had from the Hauraki Inquiry district.

>       This is not a surprising consequence of the Crown dispossessing us of all our lands around Katikati - Te Puna in the 1860s in circumstances where:

•      There was coercion by the Crown.²¹

¹⁸    Document Wai 215 # S5.

¹⁹    Page 217.

²⁰    See, eg, Map 7 in the Tauranga Moana Raupatu Report.

²¹    Tauranga Moana Raupatu Report, page 201.