User:Alan Liefting/Articles/Land tenue in New Zealand

__NOINDEX__ Land tenure in New Zealand

History
Human settlement of New Zealand began in the 12th century when the Maori arrived from the Pacific Islands. Maori had tribal ownership of land. Demarcation of land under the control of a tribe was sometimes indicated using carved wooden poles. European settlement began in earnest from the 1830's and in 1840 the Treaty of Waitangi was signed between the British colonial administration and most of the Maori tribes.

Land tenure

 * Department of Conservation - 30%
 * Land Information New Zealand - 8%
 * Leasehold high country
 * Maori
 * Private

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Issues
In recent decades access to public land has been

Legal roads exist across New Zealand that are not a formed road and occasionally a formed road will not be on the actual legal road.

Stony Batter

A 507 day occupation of [Bastion Point]]in the 1970s in opposition to the sale of the ...........

Tenure review