Story: Land ownership

More links and websites

• Tenure review Q & A

  This page looks at the high country tenure review from the perspective of the conservation group the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society.

• What is tenure review?

  This page on the High Country Accord website discusses the tenure review process from the farmers’ perspective.

More suggestions and sources

• Boast, Richard. Buying the land, selling the land: governments and Māori land in the North Island 1865–1921. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2008.
• Brooking, Tom. Lands for the people? The Highland clearances and the colonisation of New Zealand: a biography of John McKenzie. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1996.
• Fairburn, Miles. The ideal society and its enemies: the foundations of modern New Zealand society, 1850–1900. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1989.
• Gardner, W. J. A pastoral kingdom divided: Cheviot 1889–94. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1992.
• Grey, Alan H. Aotearoa and New Zealand: a historical geography. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1994.
• Jourdain, W. R. Land legislation and settlement in New Zealand. Wellington: Government Printer, 1925.
• McAloon, Jim. No idle rich: The wealthy in Canterbury and Otago, 1840–1914. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2002.