Development of land into horticulture identified as an economic buffer to protect ancestral lands from further confiscation.
The Trust received confirmation that the initial eight blocks had been amalgamated. constituting the Ngāi Tukairangi No.2 Trust.
The Trust planted our first vines in 1982, harvesting the first crop in 1985.
Collective of Māori trusts establish the Te Awanui Hukapak Co-operative to acquire the packhouse.
The original statement lodged by Mahaki Ellis with the Waitangi Tribunal concerned the alienation of land in the Whareroa Block for Tauranga Airport and the Port of Tauranga under the Public Works Act 1928.
The original statement lodged by Mahaki Ellis with the Waitangi Tribunal concerned the alienation of land in the Whareroa Block for Tauranga Airport and the Port of Tauranga under the Public Works Act 1928.
Following an initial strategy hui in 1990. the Trust diversified its portfolio with the purchase of a property in Tauranga City.
Harvested our first crop of Hort16A and begun trailing G3 Gold.
Seeka Ltd acquired the Hukapak packhouse and provide Te Awanui Hukapak Co-operative with the opportunity to become major shareholders in Seeka Ltd.
First Māori land block to break out with PSA.
Speedy G3 Gold trials ensued under leadership of Colin Jenkins.
Trust acquires a nine hectare Hayward orchard in Te Puke.
Tukairangi Investments Ltd. established to advance non-kiwifruit investments in property and shares.
The Trust purchased on of the largest gold kiwifruit orchards in the country, constituting 66 ha of G3 Gold kiwifruit across five orchards.
6.5 ha of Rockit apples acquired through leasehold agreement and 13.5 ha of Rockit license secured for future development.
Network of Māori trusts and incorporations invest in a Miro blueberry opportunity to create orchards across the country.
Thirty-four hectares of orchard in old apples acquired and converted into high value varieties.
18 ha of Gold3 orchard acquired in the Kerikeri region.
34-hectare Twyford apple orchard acquired.
46 ha of kiwifruit, persimmons and mandarins acquired.
Significant number of orchards in Ngāi Tukairangi Trust network are renamed in the Hawke's Bay.
Cyclone Gabrielle destroyed the Hawke's Bay region and some of our orchards, as well as causing extensive loss of crop and damage to the orchards.