Nelson Tenths, never heard of it: NZ Company's "agreements" still not fully honoured (pn690)

Rore Stafford with mokopuna

 I know about the Wellington Tenths. They include a gorse-filled  hillside off Aro Street and another hilly area, what was once Athletic Park and is now a rest home, on the way to Island Bay.   And I've recently written about Waiwhetū in Lower Hutt where one kaumātua is still trying to get back some of the land promised (pn687).  I'd also heard of the Palmerston North Tenths, an area west of the Square that was once swamp that was "exchanged"

 (sic!) for Oriental Bay. 

I also vaguely recall various Te Ata Awa blocks in New Plymouth and Taranaki. ("By 1990 at least ninety percent of the land reserved from the pre-1860 purchases of Te Ati Awa lands was alienated.") but I'd never heard of the Nelson Tenths.   

Correcting eleven falsehoods: "People who should know better have been spreading misinformation about Ihumātao" (pn650. )

Finally we have settlement. Government has paid Fletchers $30m to buy Auckland's historic Ihumātao site, a profit for Fletcher of $20m! The purchase ends the decades-long land dispute in which protesters resisted private developer’s plans. The year-long occupation of the land by Māori   protesters once again shows the effectiveness of this form of protest. Think back to Bastion Point and the Raglan Golf course occupations in the 1970s 

But the occupation and government's purchase unfortunately show something deeper: the  tendency by a significant number of  Pākehā —in and out of the media— to misrepresent Māori  situations; to make connections where there are none (supposed implications for  the Treaty of Waitangi), and ignore actual connections (the confiscation of the land in the 1860s); to talk of favoured treatment for Māori  rather than the righting of wrongs.  A rewriting of  history, what can only be called racist interpretations, and just how intolerant some of us are of people of other cultures.