As for the son, he became the first chairman of the Native Affairs Committee. I don't know if his heart was affected by the sins of his father. However, it is known that in the early years of the Native Affairs Committee they were swamped by a high number of petitions at the time of, and because of the constantly changing circumstances of the land wars, all the problems that arose from the Treaty of Waitangi, all those things. That is the reason the committee was overrun with petitions.