This lovely portrait is of Karl Webber’s great grandmother. Waikanae people will recognise two of the town’s street names.

Karl says: “there’s a heap of really cool info about the whanau in Chris Mclean’s book Kapiti and other places. Chris’s book is really good in my opinion, has a lot of pics and info from the whanau. Kate Hartmann at Tutere Gallery sells them at 48 Tutere St, Waikanae Beach [during the season, and Coastlands Paper Plus stocks it], or the library have the book as well. My cousin Rewa Morgan who works at the Waikanae Library would be a great person to go chat to.

“Utauta’s Dad, Wi Parata, was paramount chief of the Te Atiawa people at Waikanae and his half-brother was Hemi Matenga. Many of the streets in Waikanae and the coast are after our whanau members.

“We come from Te Rangihiroa, Ngati Toa chief who is buried at the north end of Kapiti, lived at Motu Ngarara where I stay and where he signed the treaty on 4 June 1840, the second to last signing.

“My father, Hemi Hona Webber, Jim, was the eldest male line descendant of Utauta Parata and Hona Webber / Tahiwi.”