I note also that during that time, the iwi also sought redress from the Crown but they were not recognised, and in fact, at that time, their complaints were not even investigated. Later, as has been already acknowledged, the Crown aggressively started purchasing land, land that they had already been leasing and land which they had decided payment of the rental was being now used as an advance payment for the land itself. Once again, Ngāti Rangitihi were trying to lodge claims, trying to be heard, and they were largely ignored. I admire their tenacity, because they kept on going, as has been shown since the 1860s—there are generations of this iwi that have kept on pushing even though the Crown was ignoring them. 