now having to be worked through again as part of a more formal bicultural debate.

Under its 1997 Treaty settlement, the South Island iwi Ngai Tahu gained tribal ownership of New Zealand's best quality pounamu deposits. Sheehan says the promise was that properly authenticated stone would create a market that better represented New Zealand to the world.

Instead, the pounamu became locked up for years because of internal divisions within Ngai Tahu. Head office supported commercial development, but the West Coast runanga – particularly Haast – wanted the pounamu kept as traditional property.

Sheehan says he has had to build up his business sourcing jade from China, Siberia and Canada. It is only this year that Ngai Tahu has begun to release New Zealand stone.

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On Tuesday, Jeter fell just short of Rivera’s historic mark from last season.

Jeter was named on all but one of the 397 ballots cast by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America — more than enough to clear the 75 percent hurdle for election. His 99.7 percent share of the vote eclipsed the previous second-highest voting mark, 99.3 percent, for outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. in 2016.

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