11 / 40
The Crown and Waikato have
negotiated with each other in good
faith in an endeavour to settle the
Waikato claim and to remove the
sense of grievance felt over time
by Waikato.
SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS
The Crown now acknowledges
that grave injustice was done
to Waikato when the Crown, in
breach of the Treaty of Waitangi,
sent its forces into the Waikato,
occupied and subsequently
confiscated Waikato land, and
unfairly labelled Waikato as rebels:
• after—
-- (a) the Crown and Waikato
had considered the Treaty
of Waitangi, the particular
terms of reference of the Sim
Commission, the findings and
recommendations made by the
Sim Commission in accordance
with those terms of reference,
and the compensation already
paid or provided to Waikato
(including the compensation
provided in response to the
findings and recommendations
of the Sim Commission) and had
agreed on the inadequacy of that
compensation;
…. it is not possible to crush those
who have right on their side. Sooner
or later justice will prevail. For
Waikato that time has now come.
No longer are they regarded as
rebels. Fair restitution has been
provided.
The suffering is now at
an end.
Sir Douglas Graham
19 October 1995
9
WAIKATO-TAINUI
ANNIVERSARY BOOKLET