The Mohaka River Claim
The Mohaka River claim and hearings resulted in The Mohaka River Report being released in 1992. The report can be found on the Waitangi Tribunal website.
The recommendations were:
- The Crown should enter into discussions with Ngati Pahauwera as a Treaty partner with a view to reaching agreement on the vesting of the bed of the river from the Te Hoe junction to the rivers mouth in Ngati Pahauwera and on a regime for the future control and management of the river.
- Adequate funds should be made available by the Crown to Ngati Pahuwera to enable them to engage the necessary professional and related administrative services to pursue negotiations with the Crown.
- A Water Conservation order should not be made unless and until discussions between Ngati Pahauwera and the Crown result in an agreement on a regime for the control and management of the river, in which event the order should incorporate the agreement.
- Ngati Pahauwera should receive compensation for the past removal of gravel from the river, that sum being based on the estimated royalties that have been payable since 1963.
- Any further removal of gravel or haangi stones should require the approval of Ngati Pahauwera.
- Ngati Pahauwera should be reimbursed for the reasonable costs of bringing the claim.
