Bruce Moon: Hobson And Fair Dealing In New Zealand Land

Part One of this article can be seen HERE.

Colonial Secretary, Lord Normanby in his lengthy brief to Hobson had been very explicit in his instructions concerning the acquisition of land from the tribal owners, thus:

“You will immediately on your arrival announce, by proclamation addressed to all the Queen’s subjects in New Zealand that Her Majesty will not acknowledge as valid any title to land which either has been, or shall hereafter be acquired in that country which is not either derived from or confirmed by a grant to be made in Her Majesty’s name and on her behalf.  You will however, at the same time take care to dispel any apprehensions which may be created in the minds of the settlers that it is intended to dispossess the owner of any property which has been acquired on equitable conditions, and which is not upon a scale which must be prejudicial to the latent interests of the community.”

Bruce Moon: Stuff publishes Jade Kake’s historical nonsense: a response

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. –Shakespeare, “Macbeth”, Act 5, Scene 5.

A decimated Maori economic base?

An article in Stuff, 10 February 2022 by Jade Kake, an architectural designer in Whangarei of Dutch and Maori descent, purports to address “the tribal economic base that has been decimated through the widespread and large-scale theft of land.” She ignores, one notes, the fact that the “tribal economic base” — of $9 billion as at 7.2.2019 — has never been higher than it is today. Ngai Tahu, the richest tribe on the back of “Waitangi Tribunal” settlements described by several authors as “a swindle” and “a fraud” (for which references are available), possessed $1.5 billion at 4.10.2021.

Inaccurate sweeping statements on land ownership