Māori (New Zealand people) - Land tenure - Law and legislation

Date: 1860-1873

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-45

Description: Hardcover notebook containing typewritten copies of letters from Judge Maning to Sir Donald McLean. An annotation by Cowan inside the cover highlights p30 on the subject of `The outlawry act'. Discusses Treaty of Waitangi and Native land rights. Some pages have been cut out and damaged. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1940

By: New Zealand. Public Works Department; Gordon Harcourt Ltd

Reference: MapColl-832.4794gbbd/1940/Acc.10251

Description: Survey map with cadastral information of elongated subdivisions of section 42, Block ten, Belmont Survey District, off Naenae Road and totalling over 45 acres. Land owners are named as His Majesty the King (for housing purposes), and four Native land subdivisions are owned by 'Native owners'. Adjacent sections are owned by the Crown, G Hall, E Anderson, GE Chapman, AM Lewis and CS Brandon, HB Robb, JJ & LE Toomer, JM Reid, J Reilly, EE Jones, FJ Hickman, W Russell, A Lerwill, R Munger, G Purvis. Note: Boundaries adopted from N[ative] L[and] Plans 1203, 2387, 4319 - see report. Signed by chief surveyor and others. PWD 109023. Accompanied by covering letter which explains the land has been taken by the Public Works Department for housing purposes. It provides a government valuation of the land and requests Thomson and East to value the land for Native Land Court purposes, and is signed by the Chief Land Purchase Officer, GD Brosnan.; PW 24/1258/47/13. Accompanied by a copy of the latest government land valuation which lists the owners of the properties in question as Eparaima Takarangi; Hohua, Hoani and Atareta Warena; Te Manumatake and Ranera Herema and others. Parent plan: NL 2387 RP323. Quantity: 1 map(s). 2 accompanying letters. Physical Description: Negative photographic copy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 37 x 36 cm. Provenance: Gordon Harcourt collection.

Date: 21 Dec 1875

By: Parris, Robert Reid, 1816?-1904

Reference: fMS-Papers-8302

Description: The content concerns regulations published in the Governor's proclamation of the 14th Dec 1875 Gazette No 71. Parris was at this time Returning Officer, Western Maori Electoral District, Tapuaeharuru, New Plymouth. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased 2005

From: Buller, Walter Lawry (Sir), 1838-1906 : Papers

Reference: Series-0169

Date: 18 Nov 1909-24 May 1911

By: Mackay, Alexander, 1833-1909

Reference: MS-GROUP-1517

Description: A book containing information collected about Alexander Mackay. The book includes official correspondence received following Mackay's death from government ministers Carroll, Palmer, Bunny and Fisher. Also includes newspaper clippings and details relating to the Mackay/Gibbs family history. Quantity: 1 volume(s). 1 folder(s). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, printed matter

Date: [June 2010]

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-348

Description: Shows Māori Party co-leaders Pita Sharples and Tariana Turia encircled by a snake (Prime Minister John Key). Refers to the Māori Party's supply agreement with National and Key's announcement that his government would appeal the Foreshore and Seabed Act. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper, 195 x 280 mm

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand National Party: Political pamphlets, fliers, and election propaganda

Reference: Eph-A-NZ-NATIONAL-2005-Postcards-01

Description: Postcard issued as part of the National Party's 2005 election campaign shows head and shoulders portrait of Helen Clark (Labour Party leader under the word "Iwi") and Don Brash (National Party leader under the word "Kiwi"). The verso quotes Don Brash's words "The Treaty of Waitangi should not be used as the basis for giving greater civil, political or democratic right to any particular ethnic group". The Party intended to stop a drift to racial separatism by ensuring one law for all, completing Treaty settlements by 2010, abolishing Maori seats in Parliament, returning the seabed and foreshore to Crown ownership, removing divisive "Principles of the treaty" from law. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on both sides of postcard, 101 x 150 mm.

Date: 1899

From: Mueller family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0448-61

Description: `Notes of meetings between His Excellency The Governor (Lord Ranfurly), the Right Hon R J Seddon, Premier and Native Minister, and the Hon James Carroll, Member of the Executive Council representing the native race, and the native chiefs and people at each place, assembled in respect of the proposed native land legislation and native affairs generally during 1898 and 1899', [Govt Printer, 1899] Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Printed matter

Date: 1863-1865

From: Mantell family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0083-145

Description: Draft copies (?) of The Native Reserve Claims Act 1872 and various other miscellaneous pieces of legislation. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 2009

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0011648

Description: Two men fishing from a dinghy see the head of a huge octopus rising from the sea. They realise that the Foreshore and Seabed debate is once again on the agenda - one of them comments 'It's back'. Refers to the decision that the Foreshore and Seabed Act is to be repealed. The Maori Party have demanded it and National have accepted their demand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2003

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DX-002-320

Description: Shows Michael Cullen as a taxi driver, reading a map of seabed and foreshore claims, on which he can't find the Queen's Chain. His passenger insists it does exist. Extended Title - Seabed and foreshore claims... The metre's ticking! Quantity: 1 digital image(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015753

Description: Prime Minister John Key is at the beach and is building a sandcastle that represents the 'Foreshore Bill'. Behind him an enormous wave representing 'Future renegotiation' is about to engulf him but unaware, John Key confidently asserts 'Once and for all!' to Maori Party Co-leader Tariana Turia who is running down the beach with her surfboard and who replies 'Sort of...' in a non-commital way. Refers to the new bill - On 6 September 2010, the Attorney-General introduced the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Bill to the House of Representatives to repeal the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 and introduce a new framework for recognising and protecting rights in the foreshore and seabed area. The government is treading a very careful line of appeasement toward Maori and the Maori Party without offending those who objected to much of the import (or imagined import) of the original Act. Hone Harawira, typically, is playing the mavorick by not falling into line. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).