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Item Open Access Ngāti Pārau MACA historical report(2020) Fisher, M.Item Open Access Historical report on Fenton fishery entitlements: Manuhaea, Korotuaheka and Awakokomuka(2020) Fisher, M.It was quickly apparent that the promises made in Kemp’s purchase were not fulfilled and by 1849 the first letter of protest from Matiaha Tiramōrehu was received by the Crown. Appeals for further lands was at centre of these protests. Very little farmable and economically productive lands were ever provided but in 1868 following the first hearings of the Native Land Court in the South Island Chief Judge FD Fenton allowed for some mahinga kai reservations that directly abutted waterways both inland and at sea. Fenton claimed when giving evidence on a petition regarding a different fishery in 1880 that he had allowed all the mahinga kai reservations requested: ‘I told the Natives to select their eel fisheries and such other fisheries as they thought proper should be reserved for them…The Natives produced a list of the fisheries that they required and I made orders for the whole of them.’ In fact, even if the reserves were ordered, some were never granted. One significant mahinga kai site which had been approved by Fenton but was never implemented and provided with a title was Tutaepatu lagoon near Kaiapoi. Manuhaea was at least taken further along the process with an order of reference although it seems a title was never issued.Item Open Access The Environmental Management of Whaingaroa/Raglan Harbour with a Focus on the Period Since 1970(University of Canterbury. Ngai Tahu Research Centre, 2014) Fisher, M.The claims issues of relevance to this study of Whaingaroa Harbour generally focus on the management, environmental degradation and alleged cultural desecration of the Harbour by the Crown and its delegated local authorities—the Raglan County Council (RCC), the Raglan Harbour Board, the Ministry of Works and Development, the Waikato Valley Authority (WVA), the Department of Health, and in the last two decades the Waikato District Council (WDC) and the Waikato Regional Council (WRC). The Tainui o Tainui ki Whaingaroa or Tainui Awhiro (WAI 125) statement of claim notes that the Crown has enacted a series of resource management regimes which failed to take into account Tainui mana and kaitiakitanga. Tainui notes that these regimes had less engagement with the Tainui community before 1960 but that the Town and Country Planning and the Resource Management Act (RMA) regimes have in many ways continued the old pattern of limited engagement. In terms of the environmental degradation of the harbour, Tainui claims that the Crown has removed the right of Tainui to manage the harbour and allowed the destruction of kai moana. In addition, they allege that the Crown has allowed the desecration of wahi tapu, urupa and pa sites by permitting the construction of wind farms, giving greater priority to mining interests than to tangata whenua and generally making it difficult for Tainui to live on their tupuna whenua. The Ngati Tamainupo (WAI 775) statement of claim notes that the Crown has failed to recognise the claimants’ mana and ownership over Whaingaroa Harbour by delegating management of the harbour and its resources to local authorities. Ngati Tamainupo also claim that the Crown has failed to protect the claimants’ interests in the resources contained within Whaingaroa Harbour.Item Open Access The Environmental Management of Pirongia Forest Park with a Focus on the Period Since 1970(University of Canterbury. Ngai Tahu Research Centre, 2014) Fisher, M.This research commission is comprised of five documents instead of one: an environmental overview (together with the three topic-studies), and separate case studies on Whaingaroa Harbour, the Mokau River mouth, the Waipa River, and Pirongia Forest Park. Whilst each operates as a discrete, standalone report, some minor cross-referencing has been noted to avoid unnecessary overlaps, and the reports should still be read in the context of the original commission. The author of each report is noted in the prefaces: David Alexander for the environmental overview (and the three topic-studies), Martin Fisher for the Whaingaroa Harbour and Pirongia Forest Park case-studies, and Matthew Cunningham for the Mokau River mouth and Waipa River case-studies.