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Story: Ngā haumi a iwi – Māori investment

Ngāi Tahu settlement

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Ngāi Tahu settlement

Charles Croft (front row, second from left), Sir Tipene O’Regan (next right), and Mark Solomon (next right), along with other members of Ngāi Tahu witness the passage of the Ngāi Tahu settlement legislation in 1998. Ngāi Tahu received $170 million in cash or land.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1998/3025/33-F

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Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Edward Ellison, Ngā haumi a iwi – Māori investment – Fisheries and Treaty settlements, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23134/ngai-tahu-settlement (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Edward Ellison, published 3 March 2010.