In 1956 nine blocks of Māori land towards the south of Pārengarenga Harbour were amalgamated into one block which was known as the Pārengarenga Toopu. These blocks were Pārengarenga 1, 5A1, 5A3 and 5B2B - valued at £17,195 or 17,195 shares. In 1965 Pārengarenga Toopu was divided into Pārengarenga A, to be developed as Forest and Pārengarenga B to be developed into two farming stations. These farms were known as the Paua and Te Rangi development schemes.
On the 4th March 1965 the Māori Land Court mandated Pārengarenga Incorporation. It should have been a great celebration, but the Lands and Survey department was to administer and control the land. The newly mandated Incorporation appointed trustees whose task was to secure our land back under our control. After many years, Lands and Survey no longer held the respect of the rohe, the management appointed lacked skill and the staff morale hit an all-time low.
This situation was to continue for twenty-three years before Lands and Survey would withdraw its administration. The immediate impact of the Lands and Survey withdrawal was to leave it with poor infrastructure, there were no administrators, staff, and farm advisors — no system at all. On the 5th August 1988 the then Minister of Māori Affairs, the Honourable Koro Wetere, officially handed full control of the land to Pārengarenga Incorporation.
Pārengarenga Station, as it stands, today consists of some 5200 hectares of effective pasture of easy-rolling coastal sand country with additional areas retired and planted with manuka.
