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Māori landowners at the top of the South Island will have more than 3000 hectares returned to them in a landmark agreement with the Crown.

In the 1830s the Crown promised Māori in Te Tauihu that if they sold 151,100 acres of land to the New Zealand Company they would be able to keep one tenth. They instead received fewer than 3000 acres.

The agreement to reserve the land was in part-payment for the company's purchase of the land.

In 2017 the Supreme Court ruled that the government must honour the deal struck in 1839 but efforts to resolve the case outside court since had been unsuccessful.

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In Wellington on Wednesday, Attorney-General Judith Collins and Conservation Minister Tama Potaka announced that an agreement had been reached.

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