Fortune returns to Tainui but controversy envelops the House of Paki Last week, (5th July, 2014), Tainui made the news in a couple of stories, one regarding the tribe's return to fiscal prosperity, the other saw the second son of Maori King Tuheitia enveloped in scandal. In the first it was announced that Tainui has at last turned its finances around and is enjoying unprecedented affluence following its earlier financial loses. Certainly the tribe has experienced a rocky ride fiscally in the years since being awarded significant government reparations in 1995 under its Treaty of Waitangi settlement. Since then there has been scandal concerning its finances; accusations of ineptitude and incompetence and finally, this week, the good news that the tribe has now, finally, returned to pre-colonisation levels of prosperity. However, in the other story of the week, Korotangi Paki, second son of King Tuheitia, has been embroiled in an…