Te Henga dream site for Te Kawerau a Maki marae 22 Dec 2020 14:51 PM Photo: Wikipedia.
Te Kawerau ā Maki chair Te Warena Taua says the transfer of a five-acre block at Te Henga/ Bethells Beach for a dream realised.
The iwi lived in the area until about 1920, but their kainga was hit by floods after the building of water storage dams in the Waitākere Ranges.
Mr Taua says the land was very important to Te Kawerau, and he acknowledges the contribution of John Wheeler, a descendant of the original Bethell settler family, and his friend Eli Friedlander. They were the last, under the Pākehā system, legal owners of the land, and he came to me and said Te Warena, I m calling you from hospital. He said his aunt came to him in a dream and said you need to sell this land to Kawerau. So here we are today. It took a long time, over 20 years, he says.
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