The Nelson Tenths are coming home – now comes the hard part

The return of 7,500 acres and hundreds of millions of dollars is not the end of the Nelson Tenths story. Te Here-ā-Nuku trustee Hēmi Sundgren argues the real test is what happens next. There are moments in our history that feel like endings: signatures are placed, agreements reached, numbers settled. But every so often, those moments are not endings at all – they are thresholds. The resolution of…