I also stand to talk directly and specifically about the rating and taxing of our land. The Māori Land Court was established in 1865. Its main role was to organise payments with regards to Māori land on behalf of the Crown. In 1882, the Native Lands Ratings Act was passed, and it highlighted the difference in ratings of Māori and Pākehā land. Māori land rates were 300 percent higher than those of Pākehā land. Now, let me refer to the message of my ancestor Tuta Nihoniho, delivered in the haka he composed in 1870.