Maoris hope for talks with new owners
Source: Xinhua |
April 21, 2012, Saturday
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THE head of a New Zealand indigenous Maori trust that opposed the controversial bid to buy 16 North Island dairy farms says he is still willing to talk with the Chinese buyers after the bid was approved.
Hardie Peni, executive chairman of the Tiroa Te Hape Trust, said the government's approval had denied his tribe an opportunity to reclaim ancestral land the government had wrongly taken in generations past.
Peni said the trust had not given up trying to buy back their land and their legal battle had yet to run its course.
He still hoped to negotiate with Shanghai Pengxin Group over a fair price for two of the farms in central North Island.
Hardie Peni, executive chairman of the Tiroa Te Hape Trust, said the government's approval had denied his tribe an opportunity to reclaim ancestral land the government had wrongly taken in generations past.
Peni said the trust had not given up trying to buy back their land and their legal battle had yet to run its course.
He still hoped to negotiate with Shanghai Pengxin Group over a fair price for two of the farms in central North Island.
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