Nanny Ata was a major shareholder in this block. There were a total of 620 shares in the Kaikou 3 Lot 3B block and Nanny Ata had 547.767 of those shares.

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On 17 December 1965, several Kaikou 3 Lots (1A1, 1A2, 1A3, 1B, 2, 3B, 4C1, 4C2B, 4F, 9A, 9B1B, 9B2, 9C, 13A, 13B2, 14, 31, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 45) were amalgamated and repartitioned into the Te Horo block.25

 

It is a great source of grievance for our whanau that this land was included in the amalgamation against our mothers wishes, as Kaikou 3 Lot 3B was the block of land that our whanau house, shop and cowshed were on. It is also the land that was later partitioned to allow Winiata Shortland to build a house.

 

The fact that we lived on this land was not even acknowledged in Mr Kerr’s evidence to the Court in 1965: 

This is an area of 50 1⁄2 acres situated across the main road just below the Pipiwai School. This block is in two main severances. The eastern one lying between the main road and the Kaikou River contains an area of river flat which is grassed. There may be some small patches of reversion to black –berry. The Western portion which runs from the main road up to the hills to the west is a long narrow strip approximately 3-4 chains wide and about of 3⁄4 mile long. This strip runs from easy terrace land to medium hills at the back. The front area of it is grass land which is revering to fern and scrub and the rear of the land is in scrub and fern.

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In our lifetime, blackberry wasn’t “reversion”, it was a source of food. Scrub including manuka was also used for firewood and was therefore our source of heating.