Māori land tenure : studies of a changing institution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kawharu, I. H. (Ian Hugh)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford [England] ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1977.
Subjects:	Land tenure > New Zealand > History. Māori (New Zealand people) > Land tenure > History. Land tenure (Māori law) > History. New Zealand > Colonization. Propriété foncière > Droit maori > Histoire. Colonization Land tenure Land tenure (Māori law) Māori (New Zealand people) > Land tenure New Zealand Bodennutzung Maori Land titles > New Zealand. Tenure types, Traditional > New Zealand. New Zealand. Maori. Indigenous peoples. Indigenous land rights. Land ownership. Customary law. Ahi kā. Ture whenua. Whenua tautohetohe. Kāwanatanga. Ture o te Kāwanatanga. Kōrero nehe. gewoonterecht customary law geschiedenis history land grondeigendom land ownership nieuw-zeeland new zealand bezit property Sociology and Anthropology of Law Rechtssociologie- en antropologie History

Table of Contents:

Preface
1. Introductory (peace and war ; The Maori and settler government ; land purchase to land development)
2. Customary tenure and colonization (The nature of tribal society ; Developments between 1800 and 1840 ; Developments between 1840 and 1870 ; Developments between 1870 and 1900)
3. Title aspects (The Maori Land Court and title improvement ; Investigation of title ; Partition and succession ; Consolidation of interests ; Amalgamation of interests)
4. Economic aspects (Government policy ; Consequential relationships ; Supervised credit ; Reverting and undeveloped land ; Incorporated land)
5. Deliberative aspects (Meetings of owners ; Decision-making ; Values)
6. Reform and action (Report of Committee of Inquiry ; The Maori Affairs Amendment Bill 1967)
7. The consequences of choice.
Appendix 1: The Teaty of Waitangi
Appendix 2: [The following is taken from a consolidation that was carried out as a prelude to the development at Ruatoki]
Appendix 3: An example of a family arrangement of interests which attempted to counter the disintegation effect of the so-called customary form of succession
Appendix 4: Two press accounts of one of the best-known schemes of the Department of Maori Affairs, at Pouakani, near Taupo
Appendix 5: The Committee of Management of the [Otakanini Topu] Incorporation has pleasure in submitting for the information of shareholders the eleventh annual report and statement of accounts for the year ended 30th June 1969
Appendix 6: [An excerpt from] The Prichard-Waetford Report
Appendix 7: A synopsis of the Maori Affairs Amendment Bill 1967
Appendix 8: Introduction to the submission of the Tairawhiti District Maori Council and certain Wairoa
Gisborne
East Coast incorporations to the Maori Affairs Committee of Parliament, dated September 1967
Appendix 9: The following is a greater part of an appeal to the Taranaki tribes with interests in he West Coast Settlement Reserves to take action against that part of the 1967 Act which its sponsors claimed deprived them of control over their land
Appendix 10: [The N.Z. Maori Council made detailed submissions on the contravention of the Treaty of Waitangi in current statutory law to the Minister of Maori Affairs [Duncan MacIntyre] and the Minister of Justice [Dan Riddiford]]