A Separate Authority (He Mana Motuhake), Volume II by Steven Webster

Author:Steven Webster
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030410469
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

It is surprising that Guthrie allowed Knight’s candor to remain in the record, but furthermore his Undersecretary actually replied to the query, advising him to be “non-committal if asked about land for landless natives”.11 The implication here appears to be that a great deal regarding the fine lines between ‘definite refusals’, ‘non-committal replies’, ‘evasions’, and so on—even regarding such a matter as this—was already well-understood between Knight and Minister of Lands Guthrie.

There is one pervasive characteristic of the minutebooks that tends to be taken for granted: they are almost entirely concerned with the Tūhoe ‘non-sellers’ and their consolidated shares and eventual allocations and proceed as though the Crown were merely a passive patron or partner. This, of course, obscures the facts that the Crown was the instigator of the whole affair and extremely active throughout the implementation of the Scheme, through the legislation, commissioners, surveyors, and their entire institutional matrixes. All this and its continual influence and effects remain almost invisible in the minutebooks. It even appears that the Scheme was being done for the sake of the Tūhoe rather than the Crown, as it did in the impatient undertone of Knight’s 3 October 1921 report. The following chapters are concerned primarily to recover aspects of this obscured, even suppressed, history.

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