The truth about Ihumātao: All the false claims and misinformation, corrected
The truth about Ihumātao: All the false claims and misinformation, corrected For years now, people who should know better have been spreading misinformation about Ihumātao. Now that a deal has been made, it’s time to set the record straight on some of these repeated falsehoods. Didn’t ‘the iwi’ sell the land in the first place? Nope, the block of land named the Ōruarangi block was stolen by the government in 1865. The 81 acre block was then granted to the Wallace family in 1867, who sold the land to Fletcher Residential in 2016. The block was part of more than 1.2 million acres of ...
Source: thespinoff.co.nz