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In 1989 Ngati Turangitukua registered with the Waitangi Tribunal (Wai 84) The claim was heard under urgency between April and October 1994, and the Tribunal's Report was released in September 1995.

The Tribunal found that the Crown had breached the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in a number of ways: In July 1998, the Crown and Ngati Turangitukua negotiated to achieve a full and final settlement of Ngati Turangitukua's Treaty claims and to remove the continuing sense of grievance.
 * The Crown acquired Maori land at Turangi West when Crown land at Turangi East was available:
 * The Crown did not adequately consult with Ngati Turangitukua regarding the construction of the township:
 * The land taken for the township was in excess of the maximum area that the Crown promised it would take:
 * The land the Crown undertook to lease for industrial purposes and return to the people after 10 to 12 years was compulsorily acquired and not returned:
 * Wahi tapu were destroyed or damaged in the construction of the township:
 * Adequate compensation was not paid for land acquired:
 * The Crown did not give full effect to conservation values:
 * The Crown did not pay Ngati Turangitukua the respect due its mana as tangata whenua:
 * The provisions of the Public Works Act 1928 and the Turangi Township Act 1964, relied on by the Crown in entering and taking the claimants' land, are inconsistent with the basic guarantee in Article II of the Treaty of Waitangi that Maori may keep their land until such time as they wish to sell it.
 * The Tribunal found that, as a result of the Crown's breaches of the principles of the Treaty, Ngati Turangitukua lost much of its ancestral land. Its social and economic base was seriously eroded causing spiritual, cultural, and economic prejudice to Ngati Turangitukua.

The Crown, entered into a deed of settlement on 26 September 1998 recording the matters required to give effect to a full and final settlement of Ngati Turangitukua's Treaty claims relating to the development and construction of the Turangi Township and its after effects, Ngati Turangitukua also entered into that deed of settlement.

In 1999 the Ngati Turangitukua Claims Settlement Act 1999 was passed to:

(a) To record the apology given by the Crown to Ngati Turangitukua in the deed of settlement executed on 26 September 1998 by the Minister in Charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations, the Right Honourable Sir Douglas Arthur Montrose Graham, for the Crown, and Ngati Turangitukua; and (b) To give effect to certain provisions of that deed of settlement, being a deed that settles the Ngati Turangitukua claims.