In a collegial gesture by Auckland Art Gallery, two portraits by Lindauer depicting Paora Tuhaere and Te Hira Kawau were given to be displayed in the Central City Library. These were given to celebrate and remember the past, especially in respect of the land given by Ngāti Whatua to Hobson, to establish the city of Auckland.
This points a positive way forward for Ngāti Whatua and Auckland City Libraries. Paora Tuhaere was a respected and prominent Ngāti Whatua leader. He was renowned nationally in his activities to recognise the Treaty of Waitangi in terms of the Mana Motuhake of hapu and tribes and how this might apply to a partnership with government. Internationally he was known as a statesman and trader who regularly made commercial ventures to Australia and the Pacific.
In a manuscript written for Sir George Grey, Tuhaere details the whakapapa or genealogical record of the Ngāti Whatua tribe. This manuscript, along with a later English translation provided by George Graham, provides an understanding of the settlement of Tamaki Makau Rau in the sixteenth century by the Ngāti Whatua people.
A prophecy composed by the Matakite or seer, Titahi, further outlines the spiritual and cultural significance of this area for Ngāti Whatua. Called 'He aha te Hau', which can be interpreted as the winds of change, this prophecy describes through poetry and metaphor elements of significance for this area such as the winds or hau and the sea or moana.
Elements of this prophecy have influenced the artwork of the Central City Library and the heritage floor or Taumata o ngā Taongā Tuku iho. The course of time over the past 100 years has not been smooth for the Ngāti Whatua people in Tamaki Makau Rau.
The largely unsuccessful initiatives lead by the chief Apihai Te Kawau, his son Te Hira Te Kawau and his nephew Paora Tuhaere, to honour the Treaty of Waitangi; the 1950s eviction of people from tribal lands in Okahu Bay and the more recent occupation of Takaparawhau - Bastion Point, are all beacons in an unhappy past for Ngāti Whatua. More recently, the Waitangi tribunal findings in favour of Ngāti Whatua have caused the winds of change to blow again. | 
