The Ngatiwai Mandate Inquiry Report WAI 2561
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The Ngatiwai Mandate Inquiry Report found the Crown breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi when it recognised the mandate of the Ngatiwai Trust Board to negotiate Treaty claims on behalf of iwi in October 2015.
The report came after 10 claimant groups applied for an urgent inquiry into the Crown's recognition of that mandate. Urgency hearings were held at Whangarei's Toll Stadium in October last year and in Wellington in December.
Claimant Mylie George of Ngatiwai ki Whangaruru said whanau welcomed the report.
Featured in the 9 January 2018 New Zealand / Pasifika Newsletter.
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