Ngāti Maru (Hauraki)
...large Tāmaki Block. Ngāti Maru consider these compacts were made to foster mutual and reciprocal relationships and obligations with settlers, rather than being simple alienations. The Commission recommended one-third of the Tāmaki Block be returned to Māori, but the Crown did not do this, instead taking the majority of the block as ‘surplus land’. The Crown also took surplus land from pre-emption waiver transactions that occurred between settlers and Ngāti Maru in the 1840s. Crown purc...