There has been a history of excessive land takings by the Crown, under the guise of the Public Works Act, from this iwi, and not having sufficient land in the aftermath of the Tarawera eruption to live dignified lives. Today, Ngāti Rangitihi are, effectively, a landless people. They have been dispossessed of their tribal lands and they now have interests in less than 4 percent, or approximately 9,000 hectares, of their original 250,000 hectare tribal rohe. It's an area made up of 175,000 hectares of the central North Island, known as Kaingaroa, and the adjacent lands in the 75,000 hectares of confiscated land within the Eastern Bay of Plenty confiscation area. I also note that much of that 9,000 hectares that I talked about the iwi having an interest in today is unable to be used for economic benefit, due to its status as conservation and reserves land.