QUESTIONS TO THE NEW ZEALAND FIRST MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT REGARDING TE-ROROA BILL, AT PRESENT BEFORE THE HOUSE.

1. Do your members support the part of the bill where the Governments proposal is using the Harrison farm, which surrounds Lake Wai Ngata, (50acres) to substitute the claim and tribunal recommendation on 250-acres, including most of the area of Lake Kai-iwi, which is adjacent to the Tauroa Domain?

When I questioned JANE FLETCHER at O.T.S, she said no claims can be full and final as this would be far too expensive. The claimant ROBERT PARORE is upset that this part of the claim is not included in the proposed settlement. No doubt there will be an on going claim there!

2 Only 22-acres of Harrison’s 841-acre freehold farm, consisting of two separate freehold titles, was under claim and the crown insisted on the purchase of the farm in its entirety rather than survey out the 22acres. We know, as we have written evidence to prove it, that John Delamere, David Oughton, (SEC. OF JUSTICE), Raymond Hikoroa, John.H.Davy agent for ADEPT. INTERNATIONAL NZ LTD., plus other members of the National GOVT., were negotiating with Te-Roroa to build an agricultural college for Asian Students on the Harrison farm. John.H.Davy proposed to cut out 50-acres, including the Whangaiariki claim area, and build a Maori Marae.

Several letters of correspondence turned up in Harrison's file, consisting of over 900 pages. Ninety pages of this file are still held as "Secret" under the Official Information Act. Doug Graham was 'hell-bent' to acquire Harrison’s farm and the government was negotiating through agents with TeRoroa to try and frame Harrison as a "willing seller". Harrison played into their hand by refusing to pay instalments on deferred payment licence to freehold title. After a few years of arguments, Sam Brown* recommended that the Harrisons be ordered off their home title, which consisted of the 22-acres still not surveyed out after Doug Graham had written to Don Harrison saying it must be returned to the Maori people. At this stage the licence to freehold was 15-yrs into the 25-yr term of being fully paid for. When the Crown took the farm they deducted the balance of money still owing on that contract from the total price paid for the property

Questions???

1) Did the farmers on the Ballet farms at Kerr Rd have their contracts to freehold written off?

2) Did Yvonne Sumby receive a grant to freehold her leasehold title soon after paying for another 33-yr leasehold term around the date Allen and Susan Titford's House burnt down, after the second attempt to torch it?

3) Will Te Roroa receive title as Harrison's owned it with a mile of foreshore attached to the 192-acre title that had nothing to do with the Whangaiariki 22-acre claim?

4) Did Doug Graham have an ulterior motive? There have been so many discoveries of questionable tactics by the Crown since Ross Baker has been involved in the research.

5) Did Pita Paraone as a Maori affairs employee visit Titfords senior at their home at Puhoi with Ray Chapple when Brian Titford, (Allen’s younger brother) was offered 500000 to declare his brother insane and thus give Brian Titfords the power of attorney?

Brian Titford told Harrison he had been made this offer when at the time Allen and Susan were homeless and had left for Australia with their first child. Harrison was assisting Brian with the care of the stock on the Bluff farm.

6) Who tampered with the FINAL DEEDS OF SALE for Titfords property, discovery made by Ross Baker and others?

7) Do your members realise that your suggestions to compensate Titford and Harrison for the shortfall, when the Crown took both their freehold title farms under duress, will surely re-vitalise the scandal that we endured through the media throughout this long unresolved claim?

People like John Banks on his Truth Radio will relish in a replay of him telling listeners 'Harrison received $2-million' for his farm (said it twice in fact).

John Carter who has supported Titford (along with Don Brash) will be sure to have questions to answer with Carter's new point of view.

Bill Guest will no doubt relish in a comeback, just naming a few.

Not to mention names of the many jealous farmers and tax payers who consider they have paid dearly for Titford's and Harrison's benefit

NOTE: those to stay silent will be the people who have their noses in the huge trough of the so nicknamed Treaty industry.
WE WILL NAME SOME OF THEM!

Ian Russell with his Long Beach enterprise, exporting live Angus cattle bred and raised on the Titfords and Harrison’s 2500acres.

Tom Newlove and Peter Mole Partnership, who farm the Bibby and Mole blocks

Jeff Wood who has the Dudder property. Warren Blair who still farms the Blair farm.

Terry Robinson who has Frecklingtons farm.

Knight Franks Ltd who has been in this swill as overseer of some of this huge land bank for the past 12-yrs. Many others who work from Wellington.

Barbara and Don Harrison now own 527-acres at the base of Maungaru Mt in Tangowahine Valley Dargaville. The farm is the roughest and steepest in the district, but it has a new small 3 bedroom house, 2 new total span sheds, new stock yards, but no woolshed, 3 miles of new 7-wire post and batten fences, a similar distance of upgraded or new roading. This is where the Harrison family are trying to make a new start at 69yrs of age.

Barbara has Developed cancer as a result of long term stress living at the lakes farm for 15-yrs, while paying off a mortgage we would never own because of a FALSE MAORI LAND CLAIM!!!

Then to shift to Donnelley’s crossing for eight years where the debt and overheads became much worse. The home and buildings were much older and inferior to the lake's farm. The land was much harder to farm and very cold and wet in winter.

Why go there? Smart politicians might ask?

At the time the lake farm was taken, the Harrison’s owned a half share in 272-acres with their daughter Donna. This property situated on Hood Rd was adjacent to John Bibby's farm on one side (under claim) and the claim area under Crown ownership inland from Maunganui Bluff on the other side. This property had no buildings and no internal fencing when purchased in 1990 and was affected by the stigma of the threat of Maori land claims on surrounding land in the district.
It was six years before any properties other than the so-called 5 Aranga farms, which were brought by the Crown as a result of claims, were sold in the area.

Barbara was promised that she would not have to live in this remote, god-forsaken Donnelly’s Crossing, drug ridden area for more than five years, while we upgraded the fencing and roading on Hood Rd 272-acres and DC 727-acres.
After eight bloody tough years the DC home farm sold in separate parts to two different neighbours. This happened in March 2002.
The Next shift was to Gilbert Rd Oakleigh to a ten acre block on the Whangarei harbour. On arrival Don Harrison was greeted by the new neighbour to be with, “You’re the bastard from over the other side who had caused all the trouble with the Maoris.”

'Might have caused a bit of trouble for the National Party and Labour Government, but got on pretty well with the Maori people', was Harrison’s response.

Got out of there after 3yrs of hell for Barbara and decided to put a new house on a 60acre block with road frontage adjacent to Maungaru Mt.
Daughter Sheryl, Grandsons Sydney and Danyon 13 and 11yrs and Sheryl’s partner live in their motor home on the farm. We are unable to afford to build a home for them.

Most of the breeding herd of 250 beef Short Horn and Maine-Anjou cross cows, which were established at the lakes farm, now live at Okaihau and Utakura on land leased from two of Don Harrison’s brothers.
Not quite the same as farming 841 acres at the lakes, but at least we can say we still own our capital asset, the breeding herd, which was first established in Okaihau 47-yrs ago when Don and Barbara Harrison were first married and started out on a 270-acre rough farm on the north side of okaihau plateau.
Could have left for Australia and done much better, but stuck it out through times of very inconsiderate Governments in this country and have survived to tell this story!!!!!!

Thanks to NZ FIRST for consideration at this late stage. The people who we really do appreciate for their long hours of research to prove the facts that we were done dirty by both Labour and National Governments are ROSS BAKER, NOEL HILLIAM, ALLEN AND SUSAN TITFORD THE LATE JOCK AND HIS WIDOW JOAN LEAF, THE LATE GRAHAM RANKIN and many other supporters who have spent many hours researching history and evidence on this case to prove that the claims on Whangaiariki and Manuwhetai are FALSE.

These FACTS will haunt some politicians for a long time yet before this show is over.

My advice is never try to convert hearsay and assumptions into fact without full proof evidence, as you could get it wrong and have to change tact a time or two like JOHN CARTER has.

A copy of this letter will go to ROSS BAKER for his rapidly growing web site to inform people what really has happened.

ONE MORE QUESTION BEFORE CLOSING

Is NZ FIRST aware that a survey, costing in excess of $400,000 was carried out under JOHN DELAMERE'S instructions immediately the Crown acquired Harrison’s farm. The area was of 50-acres with access a chain wide to the Aranga beach and another access to the Lakes road and the job was never gazetted. It included most of the Whangaiariki area. GOOD NEWS FOR TAX PAYERS????!!!!

Yours Sincerely
Don and Barbara Harrison.

*Footnote by webmaster: Sam Brown (Te Roroa claimant), Chief Crown Property Officer and at the head of Lands and Survey Department (later to become LINZ). He admitted to the Titfords on several occasions that he was of Te Roroa lineage. He spent 16-years working for Maori Affairs before joining the Tuwharetoa Trust Board and working under Sir Hepi te Heuheu. He joined the Department of Survey & Land Information in 1990 after acting as private secretary to Minister of Maori Affairs, Koro Wetere for 3-years. In letters gained under the "Official Information Act", he suggests that the government should simply "starve out" the Titfords. He was one of several Te Roroa claimants in high government office, who used their positions to steal the Titford and Harrison freehold titles.