Fed up with seeing the housing struggles its whanau was facing, Ngati Hinewera got up and did something about it.
So, on an expansive 1.45ha site of prime real estate that had been sitting dormant for years on the outskirts of Taradale, Ngati Hinewera Lane was born.
It is there that the hapū had eight houses built, a mix of two, three and four-bedroom dwellings, a papakainga, a place the Tareha line could call home for generations.
They had whanau living in caravans, sheds and decrepit houses. While this may be acceptable in the short term, some of the whanau were living in such circumstances long-term, even generational.
The papakainga has a basketball court, room for a touch field, vegetable gardens, alongside numerous fruit trees. There is also a resident grounds manager to take care of the place.