Map 1: Tauranga Moana district inquiry boundaries

ground that the raupatu boundary lines provided the best limits for what is, after all, the main issue of this inquiry: the Tauranga raupatu.³

The Tauranga Moana lands were originally proclaimed as a district under the New Zealand Settlements Act on 18 May 1865, and that district was later extended to the south-east by the Tauranga District Lands Act 1868. The claimants alleged that the whole of this district of some 290,000 acres was confiscated. In this report, we refer to this area as the ‘confiscation

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