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The descendants of customary landowners across the top of the South Island remain hopeful of resolving a long-standing legal battle over land across Nelson and Tasman, outside of court.
A date has been set in the Court of Appeal for a week-long hearing next April, after the Crown appealed a recent High Court ruling that found customary landowners - NgΔ Uri - were entitled to thousands of hectares of Crown land and millions of dollars in compensation.
In the 1830s, the Crown promised MΔori in Te Tauihu (the top of the South Island) that if they sold 151,100 acres of land to the New Zealand Company - they'd be able to keep one-tenth.
Instead, they got less than 3000 acres, now known as the Nelson Tenths Reserves.
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