The police authority in Owhiro Bay was Sergeant Moana Rangitira, officially a sworn member of the New Zealand Armed Constabulary, a paramilitary unit created to keep the peace after the Maori land wars of the 1860's and to maintain civil law and order.

Moana's mother, Ata, born in her ancestral lands of Owhiro Bay was a member of the Ngati Ira Iwi.4 Once upon a time she had a passionate, heated and very short affair with an English whaler. As Ata was born an Ariki ...