Mr O’Regan joins party to probe fishing rights
By
JANE ENGLAND
Maori affairs reporter The chairman of the Ngai Tahu Maori Trust Board, Mr Tipene O’Regan, yesterday became one of four Maori representatives on a joint working party set up by the Crown and Maori tribes to investigate Maori fishing rights. The board had initiated High Court action against the Government over the implementation of fishing quotas. The action was later pursued by other tribes and the Fishing Industry- Association and has since resulted in an out-of-court agreement. The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Palmer, yesterday said that the working party would comprise four Crown and four . tribal representatives and j was reouired to on
Maori fishing rights by June 30. The study was an essential ingredient in an agreement which stopped further High Court action over the fisheries issue. The implementation of the Individual Transferable Quota System (1.T.Q.), for next year will hand in the balance, pending the working party’s report. Mr O’Regan indicated earlier this month that Maori tribes had been allocated $1.5 million in compensation to allocate as they decided, as well as Government funding for Maori fisheries research programmes, as part of the out-of-court agreement. He also said that there was some possibility the I.T.Q. system could be changed to a leasehold
system instead of transfer in perpetuity. This was one of the avenues the party would be exploring. Crown representatives on the working party are the chairman of the Human Rights Commission, Mr Justice Wallace; the executive chairman of the Railways Corporation, Mr Ross Sayers; the deputy chairman of the Fishing Industry Board, Mr Fred Baird; and the assistant secretary to the Treasury, Mr John Chetwin. The Maori representatives are Mr O’Regan; the chairman of the New Zealand Maori Council, Sir Graham Latimer; the executive director of Runanga O Muriwhenua, Mr Matiu Rata; and a nominee of the Tainui Trust Board who is yet to be named.
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