The deed includes a cultural redress package intended to recognise the traditional, historical, cultural and spiritual associations of Ngāti Tamaoho, including places and sites owned by the Crown within their area of interest. This allows Ngāti Tamaoho and the Crown to protect and enhance the conservation values associated with these sites.
Sites to be vested
The following sites of cultural significance will be vested in the Ngāti Tamaoho Settlement Trust on the settlement date:
- Clark’s Creek property
- Karaka property
- Waitete Pā property, to be administered as an historic reserve.
Hūnua Falls
The Deed of Settlement also provides for the joint vesting of a Hūnua Falls property in the Ngāti Tamaoho Settlement Trust, the Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki Trust, and the PSGEs for Ngaati Whanaunga and Ngāti Koheriki. The Hūnua Falls property is to be a scenic reserve named Hūnua Falls Scenic Reserve and will be administered by the Auckland Council.
Statutory acknowledgements and deed of recognition
A statutory acknowledgement recognises the association between Ngāti Tamaoho and a particular site or area and enhances the iwi’s ability to participate in specified Resource Management Act 1991 processes. The Crown offers a statutory acknowledgement over the following areas and waterways:
- Awaroa River and its tributaries
- Awhitu Conservation Area
- Coastal Marine Area
- Drury Conservation Area and Drury Creek Marginal Strip
- Drury Creek Islands Recreation Reserve
- Hingaia Stream and its tributaries
- Hunua Stream and its tributaries
- Karaka Creek and its tributaries
- Kellyville Conservation Area
- Lake Pokorua and Waraha Stream (unnamed) and its tributaries
- Lake Pokorua Conservation Area and Lake Pokorua Marginal Strip
- Maioro Sands Marginal Strip
- Mangatangi Stream and its tributaries
- Mangatawhiri Forest Conservation Area
- Mangatawhiri River and its tributaries
- Maramarua River and its tributaries (excludes Mangatangi Stream and its tributaries)
- Mauku Stream and its tributaries
- Miranda Scientific Reserve
- Mount William Scenic Reserve
- Ngakoroa Stream and its tributaries
- Oira Stream and its tributaries
- Otūwairoa Stream and its tributaries (includes Waipokapū Stream, Mangapū Stream and Waihoehoe Stream)
- Paparimu Conservation Area
- Part Mercer Domain Recreation Reserve (Te Pou o Mangatawhiri)
- Te Maketu Historic Reserve
- Puhitahi Creek and its tributaries
- Raventhorpe Scenic Reserve and Raventhorpe Conservation Area
- Richard Sylvan Memorial Scenic Reserve
- Te Hihi Creek and its tributaries
- Te Toro Recreation Reserve
- Vining Scenic Reserve
- Waipipi Scenic Reserve
- Waipokapū Stream Conservation area
- Wairoa Gorge Scenic Reserve
- Whangamaire Stream and its tributaries
- Whangamarino River and adjacent Whangamarino River Marginal Strip
- Whangapouri Creek and its tributaries.
A Deed of Recognition obliges the Crown to consult with Ngāti Tamaoho on specified matters and have regard to their views regarding their special associations with certain areas.
The Crown offers a deed of recognition over the following sites:
- Mangatawhiri Forest Conservation Area
- Mount William Scenic Reserve
- Paparimu Conservation Area
- Richard Sylvan Memorial Scenic Reserve
- Te Maketu Historic Reserve
- Vining Scenic Reserve.
Geographic and change of names of sites within conservation land
Twenty-one geographic place name changes will be made by settlement legislation:
- Pehiakura Lake to Pēhiakura Lake
- Bald Hill to Whakaupoko
- Puhitahi Creek (recorded) to Puhitahi Creek
- naming of an unnamed hill as Tītī
- Maketu Stream to Te Maketu Stream
- Clarks Creek to Whatapaka Creek
- Symonds Stream to Mangapū Stream
- Slippery Creek to Otūwairoa Stream
- Waihoihoi Stream to Waihoehoe Stream
- Hays Stream to Waipokapū Stream
- naming of an unnamed bluff to Te Māunu a Tū Bluff
- naming of 10 unnamed historic sites as:
- Pōkino Kainga
- Te Aparangi
- Kaikākā
- Pakakina
- Pēhiakura
- Puhitahi
- Purapura
- Te Iaroa
- Te Teoteo Pā
- Whatapaka Pā.
The Pratts Road Historic Reserve, a Crown Protected Area, will be renamed to Te Maketu Historic Reserve through the Ngāti Tamaoho settlement legislation.
The name of Hays Stream Conservation Area will be changed to Waipokapū Stream Conservation Area on the settlement date.
Other cultural redress
Ngāti Tamaoho will also receive a payment of $590,000 for cultural revitalisation.
Relationships
Protocols, relationship agreements and letter of recognition
The settlement provides for the Minister of Energy and Resources to issue a protocol setting out how it will interact with and consult Ngāti Tamaoho when carrying out statutory duties and functions.
The Ministry for Arts, Culture and Heritage will issue a protocol setting out how it will interact with and consult Ngāti Tamaoho in relation to taonga tūturu.
Ngāti Tamaoho will enter into relationship agreements with the Minister and Department of Conservation, and the Ministry for the Environment. Ngāti Tamaoho will also receive a Fisheries Letter of Recognition on behalf of the Ministry for Primary Industries. These agreements outline how these agencies will engage with Ngāti Tamaoho including the level of input into sustainability processes and decisions about natural resources.
Letters of introduction
The Ngāti Tamaoho Deed of Settlement will recognise 27 letters of introduction to appropriate government departments, local authorities, non-government organisations and museums.
Letters of introduction to the Department of Internal Affairs, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision, Auckland War Memorial Museum and Waikato Museum will recognise the Ngāti Tamaoho aspirations for collaboration with the culture and heritage sector in relation to its cultural interests.