Dispossessed farmers, Allan & Susan Titford and family of Northland, New Zealand.

When the government, in collusion with the Waitangi Tribunal, stole their farm off them using falsified history and dirty tricks, they fought back against all odds. Despite the fact that the Titfords' were ultimately able to prove, beyond any doubt, the longstanding historical integrity and legitimacy of their farm title, Attorney General, Margaret Wilson, made the unjust, politically motivated decision to hand their farm over to Te Roroa iwi claimants.

In June 2001 Paramount Chief of Nga-Puhi, Graham Rankin, appealed to the Minister of Treaty Claims, the Hon. Margaret Wilson, to help the Titford family. As a learned Elder, who was very conversant with the history and genealogical lineages of Northern New Zealand, he knew that the Titford's had been unlawfully dispossessed of their farm at Maunganui Bluff, Northland. The following is his letter to the Hon. Margaret

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A picture of Allan & Sue Titford, with their new born baby, superimposed over a picture of their burnt down home. This was the second house on their farm they were to lose to arsonist/ terrorists. They were harassed and terrorised for five years, before being driven off their legally titled, Northland property by government and activist bullies

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