From 1867 through to 1873, more legislation was introduced on Māori land titles that was to better reflect the owner, but between 1870 and 1900, Ahuriri Māori protested land issues through the repudiation and the kotahitanga movements. By 1874, the Crown set aside Te Whanganui-ā-Orotu as an endowment for the Napier Harbour Board. Unfortunately, Ahuriri hapū were not put on that board. As the Minister laid out, the changes in 1931—the Napier earthquakes—saw those lands drop from 9,500 acres down to 680 acres. So many things had happened in the whenua of Ahuriri hapū. 