A true trustee, in what this report has predicated was a region of exceptional vulnerability, would have ensured the two preconditions of Hauraki survival:

•   the need for Hauraki people to be provided with an opportunity to work within the new economy in a way that did not destroy their old social order;

•   the requirement that a sufficient portion of the peoples' land be retained so that they

developed modern farming within the context of their traditional hapu structures

participated in the great capital gains from rising land values in the region since 1865

became major leaseholders so that a constant annual income was available for causes such as education

used land as collateral for banking advances when venture capital was needed.

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