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New Zealand’s true documented history

Unless you can answer the following questions, you have no idea of New Zealand’s true history.

QUESTIONS
1. Who smuggled 800 muskets from England into New Zealand in 1820?
2. Who went on a rampage south slaughtering thousands of men, women, and children for the fun of it and the feasts that followed?
3. Why did the 13 Ngapuhi Chiefs write to the King asking for protection?
4. Why was the Declaration of Independence a complete failure?
5. How and when were the boundaries of New South Wales extended to include New Zealand, placing New Zealand under the dependency of New South Wales?
6. Who drafted the instruction for Lt. Governor Hobson to write the Treaty of Waitangi?
7. What did tangata Maori give up in the Tiriti o Waitangi?
8. What did tangata Maori gain by the Tiriti o Waitangi?
9. How did New Zealand become a British Colony?
10. How did Lt, Governor Hobson become Governor of New Zealand?
11. How was New Zealand’s Government formed under one flag to make laws, irrespective of race, colour, or creed?
12. How did New Zealand get a political, justice and legal system?
13. When was the legislative Council formed?
14. When was our first Constitution issued and by whom?
15. When was the first sitting of the Legislative Council?
16. Who set up land titles and returned land to the chiefs that had been sold by them before 6 February 1840?
17. Why did Chief Justice Prendergast rule the Treaty a “Simple nullity” in 1877?
18. Where does it say, the Treaty was, “A Partnership between Maori and the Crown”?

 

ANSWERS.
1. Hongi Hika, Ngapuhi.
2. Hongi Hika and his Ngapuhi followers.
3. They were afraid the southern tribes were arming themselves for utu/revenge.
4. James Busby could only get 52 chiefs to sign it before it was abandoned.
5. By Royal Charter dated the 30 July 1839.
6. James Stephen, the Under-Secretary of Colonies, and a strong supporter of the Clapham Sect.
7. They gave up their kawanatanga/government.
8. They became British Subjects with same rights as the people of England. This advanced tangata Maori a 1000 years in their culture, stopped the intertribal wars and gave one law for all without tangata Maori lifting a finger.
9. By Royal Charter issued by “Victoria by the Grace of God” under, “The Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, dated 16 November 1840.
10. By Royal Charter issued by “Victoria by the Grace of God” under, “The Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, dated 16 November 1840.
11. By a Constitution issued by “Victoria by the Grace of God” under, “The Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, dated 16 November 1840.
12. By a Constitution issued by “Victoria by the Grace of God” under, “The Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, dated 16 November 1840.
13. May 3, 1841. Lt. Governor Hobson became Governor of New Zealand.
14. By “Victoria by the Grace of God” under, “The Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, dated 16 November 1840.
15. May 3, 1841. New Zealand formed a government under one flag and one law.
16. The New Zealand Colonial Government.
17. “So far indeed as that instrument (The Treaty of Waitangi) purported to cede the sovereignty, it must be regarded as a ‘simple nullity’. No political body existed capable of making cession of sovereignty”.
18. There is absolutely nothing in the Treaty of Waitangi that mentions, “A Partnership between Maori and the Crown”, absolutely nothing!
All the above questions and answers are based on documentation from Archives around the world, the British Parliamentary Papers and documents obtained under the Official Information Act by the One New Zealand Foundation Inc.
With British Sovereignty firmly asserted by November 1840, Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent dated the 16 November 1840 separated New Zealand from New South Wales dependency and New Zealand became a British Colony on the 3 May 1841. Lt. Governor Hobson was sworn in as the Colonies first Governor with a Constitution to form a government to make and enforce English law over the whole country and its people. By now the Tiriti o Waitangi had served its purpose and was filed away. It was just one small part in the process of New Zealand becoming a British Colony and tangata Maori becoming British Subjects with the same rights as the people of England under one flag and one law, English Law!
Queen Victoria’s 1840 Royal Charter/Letters Patent dated the 16 November 1840 was New Zealand true Founding Document and first Constitution!

If any information is found to be incorrect, please supply official documented history to support your findings and the above will be amended.
ROSS BAKER.
Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc. Email: [email protected]. 5/3/2021
http://onenzfoundation.co.nz/

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Tamaki Isthmus (Auckland) was not gifted by Maori

The Crown and Auckland Council’s genuflecting to Ngati Whatua and its various hapu based on their claim to mana whenua over the Tamaki Isthmus is arrant nonsense.

It is often asserted that Ngati Whatua “gifted” the land on which Auckland City now stands to the Crown, thus entitling them to be involved on an ongoing basis in running the city.

THE LAND WAS NOT “GIFTED” at all, but sold to the Crown for cash and goods. Once something is sold, it’s gone for good, and the seller has no further claim over it or ongoing rights to say what happens with it.

Claims to the contrary can be likened to selling someone a house, then demanding a perpetual say in how it is renovated, decorated and landscaped.

In any event, like so many early New Zealand land sales, Ngati Whatua’s claims to ownership at the time of sale are tenuous at best.

Ngati Whatua were not the first occupants of the Auckland area. Originally based further north, they colonised the locality around 1750 by exterminating its former occupants, Te Waiohua.

What goes around comes around. In the 1820s, the Tamaki Isthmus was repeatedly invaded by musket-toting Ngapuhi. The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand records that as a result: “much of the isthmus was abandoned as tribes sought shelter in the Tainui region.”

Historian, RCJ Stone, notes: “fear of Ngapuhi prevented them [Ngati Whatua] from occupying their old home for many years afterwards, indeed, not until Auckland was founded [in 1840] did they feel safe.”

Ngati Whatua thus “sold” to the Crown land they’d cravenly vacated more than a decade before. Land they no longer occupied or controlled in any meaningful sense. This placed the Governor and his troops between Ngati Whatua returnees and renewed hostilities from Ngapuhi.

Payment from the Crown also underscored to neighbouring tribes that the mana of the land remained with Ngati Whatua, though if you run away and stayed away for more than 10 years rather than standing up for yourself, you are actually cowards with no mana.

While a clever stroke of business from both a practical and a Maori perspective, this historical action hardly supports demands from Aucklanders of Anglo-Ngati Whatua descent for special treatment based on having some Maori ancestry.

By Jack Leslie

http://www.kiwifrontline.com/

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Ending inter-tribal warfare

NZ colony

Reluctant Colonisers

New Zealand in the 1830s had no government or political structure either Polynesian or British. The native tribes were frequently at war with one another and there was no concept of a united Pacific nation. This was despite the fact that in 1835 there was a Declaration of Independence cobbled together by British Resident, James Busby. Although signed by a number of chiefs, mostly from Northland, and accepted by the British government, it did not set up a unified Maori nation.

Up until 1838. the British government had no desire to get involved in New Zealand and establish another expensive colony. It was well aware that British settlement was increasing, but was reluctant to interfere. In the meantime, it was happy to let the Governor of New South Wales monitor the changing New Zealand scene from across the Tasman. However, ultimately it was the expanding European (mainly British) economic activity, trading and settlement, and concerns over the impact of these developments on the native peoples that forced the British government’s hand. Also influencing London were the concerns expressed by missionaries and the entreaties of some chiefs.

The Maori Dark Age

The scattered native tribes (variously called indigenous people, Aborigines, savages, natives, New Zealanders, but not Maori at this stage), had been rapidly killing each other off since the 1800s in devastating inter-tribal conflicts, sometimes called the Musket Wars.

In over 500 battles prior to 1840, tens of thousands of indigenous people had been killed or wounded and many innocent men, women and children had been senselessly slaughtered and often eaten. Hundreds of others had been taken into slavery.

Furthermore unfamiliar diseases, like smallpox, were decimating the population in many areas, notably among Ngai Tahu in the South Island.

European influences on the native peoples increased as the 1830s proceeded, but the degree of interaction varied enormously. The tribal groups of the north, especially in Northland, had the greatest contact with white missionaries, traders, settlers, escaped convicts from Australia and travellers.

Inevitably there was inter-marriage, and this would ultimately mean that today all Maori are in fact part-Maori, and most have more ancestors of European origin than Polynesian…….

Read Roger Childs’ full article here →