So my tupuna four great-grandfathers back was a rangatira who signed He Whakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and at that time he was a businessman who was in the hospitality and entertainment industry such as it was back in the day. He was the owner-operator of two alehouses. He had market-sized gardens that fed the hapū. He collected customs duties off trading and whaling ships that came into the Bay of Islands. He was setting his hapū, my hapū, up to be productive and successful both socially and in commerce. He signed Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the mistaken belief that his valued possessions and resources would be his for ever. 