All the way back then, an agreement to consolidate individual awards into more economical, viable family holdings was never carried out. Landless Ngāti Maru people not named in the 1907 Acts didn't receive any land, and despite further petitions, in 1946, the Crown finally declined to provide any further land for Ngāti Maru. Much of the tribe's remaining land came later under the Public Trustee administration and it was subject to perpetual leases that invariably benefited Pākehā farmers rather than the Ngāti Maru owners. The extensive loss of the Ngāti Maru lands has eroded tribal structures, created severe poverty, and damaged the physical, cultural, and spiritual health of generations of Ngāti Maru people. 