Some 2,000 petitions were put to the Māori Affairs Committee in the early days, and that was the loading and the bulk of its work. I requested of the Parliamentary Library if they would please do some research in terms of my whakapapa and association to those who have served on the select committee. The research that came also happened to reveal—and I did not know this—that back in 1888, petition No. 276 was lodged by my great-grandfather Waata Wiremu Hipango. He was persistent, like many Māori who came before the Native Affairs Committee at that time, because it was a place to come to address Māori land confiscation grievances and many others, particularly concern about the Native Land Court, as it was at that time. So my great-grandfather, again, lodged petition No. 452, and then the final petition, No. 228—bearing in mind it started in 1888, the last in 1914, signed off on 23 May 1916—was to pray that land be granted to the children of Hoani Wiremu Hipango, deceased, my great-great-grandfather, and that owing to the death of the petitioner, his son, the petition was to be withdrawn. I was unaware of the personal petitioning by our tūpuna, but we all have that personal association and reflection, and thus the significance.