An immensely valuable aspect of all Treaty settlement legislation is the enactment of the historical account. Minister Andrew Little today has laid out the historical events that led us to today; allow me, however, to draw attention to four aspects of the account. The Crown promoted land laws in the 1860s which individualised the tribal land tenure of Māori. Between the 1870s and the 1890s, the Native Land Court investigated the areas where Ngāti Rangitihi claimed interest. The court system involved significant costs for Ngāti Rangitihi, particularly for surveying. Although Ngāti Rangitihi rangatira protested against the outcomes of many court decisions, the Crown largely ignored those complaints. In the 1910s, the Crown drained the Rangitāiki swamp, depleting Ngāti Rangitihi of food resources. The drainage led to the neglect of two Ngāti Rangitihi urupā and degraded the mauri of Te Awa o te Atua. From 1954, Crown legislation allowed the Tasman Pulp and Paper Co. to discharge waste, which caused heavy pollution to the Tarawera River and Lake Rotoitipaku.