not suppress what the women want to do. The parent gives his land to his daughters, not to his sons. The land is now given up to you. I do not speak about any other place excepting the Awhe. Whoever opposes me, let him do it publicly. I cannot hold the land. It is gone to the Europeans, and the Chieftainship of it also. Therefore how can the Maoris hold it. That the Maoris may have one side of the stream, and the English the other."