Map 2: Tauranga land blocks

benefit of the provisions of the Treaty of Waitangi’.⁴ Nevertheless, after examining the wars of the 1860s and the resulting confiscations, the commission concluded that the Government’s invasion of Waitara, which started the Taranaki war, was wrong and that Taranaki Maori ‘ought not to have been punished by the confiscation of any of their lands’.⁵ However, the

4. ‘Report of Royal Commission to Inquire into Confiscations of Native Lands and Other Grievances Alleged by Maoris’, 29 June 1927, AJHR, 1928, g-7, p 2 (RDB, vol 48, p 18,525)

5. Ibid, pp 10–11 (pp 18,533–18,534)