While Lord Nuku Fe’ao Finefeuiaki was still alive, his cunning brother-in-law, Sione Senior Kite was a very shrewd man from Fakakai village, Ha’apai Islands. He brought hundreds of people from Ha’apai Islands, and granted them land at Kolonga, without Lord Nuku's permission. By then it was too late, this angered Lord Nuku Fe’ao Finefeuiaki, and he stripped everything off him, including their land and sent them to Nuku’alofa, Tongatapu. The Ha'apai people that remained behind led Lord Nuku Fe'ao Finefeuiaki, to divide the land among them and granted them registered land ownership (since they were innocent).