This Act made it necessary to formally ‘register whangai placements in the Native Land Court to qualify the child to succeed to lands of their whangai parents’.[i] The Act also legalised the adoption of children outside of the kin-based network.
Footnotes
[i] go to main content Karyn Okeroa McRae and Linda Waimarie Nikora, ‘Whangai: remembering, understanding and experiencing’, MAI Review, 1, 2006, Intern Research Report 7, p. 1.