Their efforts were rewarded in 1993 when the Honorable Doug Kidd sponsored a Private Members Bill to return the Whakarewa Estate to the rightful Ngāti Rārua and Te Āti Awa descendants.
Support from many Pākehā and Māori sympathizers assisted the cause. In the early 1980s the Ngāti Rārua Council once again brought up the issue of ownership, due to another restructuring of the Whakarewa Trust Board’s activities and utilization of the property for uses not stipulated in the Trust Deeds. For a long period it operated as a residential home for orphans and children from adverse circumstances and, in the late 1970’s, the home was leased to the Nelson Hospital Board for the residential care of severely handicapped patients. Early attempts to operate as a residential industrial and agricultural school went through cycles of success and failure. Over the next 100 years, the Whakarewa School Trust Board maintained a chequered history as it attempted to keep its obligations under the terms of Grey’s grant and the Trust deeds. The owners had been deprived of their tūrangawaewae and were forced to move off their lands at great social and cultural cost for five or six generations of Ngāti Rārua and Te Āti Awa people. Objection from the Māori owners and their descendants via submissions, petitions, and deputations continued unabated from that time, and at least three major investigations resulted. The Te Maatu lands were taken from the Motueka Occupation Reserves and the Motueka Tenths Reserves Estates.Īlthough the 1844 Spain Commission had recognized individual Ngāti Rārua and Te Āti Awa descendants as being the rightful land owners, their permission and compensation was not sought or given. In 1853 Governor Grey appropriated and then gifted, via two Crown Grants, 918 acres of our Native Reserve Lands in Motueka to Bishop Selwyn, the head of the Anglican Church.
Pāora Te Poa Karoro Morgan (Paul Morgan) - Trustee profile.
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