"By 1870, the Crown and private parties had acquired about 51,000 acres of approximately 54,000 acres awarded to Ahuriri Hapū individuals under what was called the 10-owner rule. In 1867, 1870, and 1873, the Crown introduced legislation that attempted to provide for Māori land titles that better reflected the interests of wider communities of right-holders and to remedy problems that had arisen as a result of the 10-owner rule." However, these remedial measures did not apply to Ahuriri Hapū lands, which had already passed through the Native Land Court by 1867 and which had been alienated by 1870.