Samuel Yates (storekeeper)

[1] He became a prominent resident, building a large homestead at Paua, on the southern side of Pārengarenga Harbour.

It was a fortuitous marriage; through his wife's relationships with her iwi, Yates purchased or leased a significant amount of land across the northern part of the Aupouri Peninsula.

His holdings eventually ran from Te Kao to North Cape and across to the coast on the western side of the peninsula.

[4] Much of the acquired land was converted to pasture, on which livestock, in the form of cattle, sheep and horses, was stocked.

By September 1900, his health was in decline and he decided to leave Pārengarenga for Auckland so that when he died, he could be interred in the Jewish section of the Symonds Street Cemetery.