Ngāti Maru are centred, as we all know, in the inland Waitara River valley. The area of interest extends from Mount Taranaki, east to the upper Whanganui River, and north-east to the Waitara River, spanning around 220,000 hectares, and that was whittled away to just 900 acres over history. My colleagues have spoken about that history, and I think it is very important to continue to put it on the record so that we never forget it. Significant tracts of land belonging to Ngāti Maru were confiscated by Europeans in the 1860s, and that included about half of the traditional lands. In the 1870s, the Crown tried to encourage European settlement on confiscated land by really paying Ngāti Maru token compensation, which then amplified the harm by dividing the iwi. Then much of the remaining Ngāti Maru land was put through the Native Land Court, and, of course, ultimately, Ngāti Maru did not retain any of their land awarded to them by the Native Land Court. By the early 1890s, Ngāti Maru were left virtually landless.