Indeed, ask the older people and they will tell you how the original Whakatohea settlement on the 1940s was hijacked by an elite and their lawyers – a woeful tale. So, when the trust board has its AGM none of the votes taken have any standing, the “beneficiaries” have no power whatsoever. “On the 28th.” So, the Whakatohea settlement bill is back in parliament and going to be passed on the anniversary of our Treaty of Waitangi signing in Opotiki (27 and 28 May 1840). My father was David Huia Herewini who was a former Whakatohea Maori Trust Board member and Whakatohea Fisheries Advisory Trustee. It purports to bind individuals and groups of Whakatohea into supporting the Bill and binding the settlement trust into suppressing opposition.
