•          When Taraia learnt of the moves in the 1860s by the Crown and Ngai Te Rangi to lay a buffer down between Hauraki via the sale of Katikati-Te Puna without regard to Marutūāhu interests, he and other Marutūāhu chiefs threatened warfare again.

•          The Crown then took some notice.

•          After the arbitration, the adverse response by some Ngai Te Rangi towards Marutūāhu was met by the preparations of Te Moananui and others of Ngati Tamaterā, Ngati Maru and Ngati Paoa to take a taua to Katikati.

•          Our traditions are that Crown officials who subsequently met with my ancestor Te Moananui and Taraia made it very clear that Marutūāhu had to relinquish our interests at Katikati-Te Puna, apart from monetary payment, or we would face military invasion.

•          My ancestors were told:

-          We would get no land like Ngai Te Rangi. But not to worry, the land they were to get was a small pittance to that which they were losing by confiscation.

-          Marutūāhu were lucky to get any money as we were losing no land in Hauraki.

•           This was all happening against the background of intense Crown pressure to open our lands for goldmining etc in Hauraki.

•           In the end, that is what those Chiefs were faced with. Try and maintain our land in Hauraki intact and secure what they could.

26.       To the descendants of these warrior chiefs, Taraia, Tukukino and Te Moananui to name a few, it is unbelievable that at Ongare, the very place of the last military engagement between Marutūāhu and Ngai Te Rangi and their enforcement of mana whenua by our people, we received not one piece of land. As shown in the report to Mr Walzl, (Map 47A) and the report of Dame Evelyn Stokes (pages 48-53, “The Allocation of Reserves for Maori in the Tauranga Confiscated Lands” - Vol 1: Wai 215 A5&) all the land that was reserved there went to Ngai te Rangi, indeed the whanaunga of Whanake.

27.       We have no land whatsoever in that part of our ancestral rohe. We have no marae, no kainga, no mahinga kai, no tauranga waka there as the Crown stole them from us.

28.       The losses of Marutūāhu as a result of the Crown raupatu at Katikati are long standing, immeasurable and the cause of great humiliation. Every time our kaumatua recite our pepeha ‘mai Nga Kuri a Wharei ki Mahurangi’ or ‘mai Matakana ki Matakana’, they face the prospect of people saying they are liars ....

29.       This is the legacy the Crown has left us.” [Emphasis added]