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...New Zealand Company signed deeds with other iwi that purported to purchase the entire northern South Island. The following year several Ngāti Kōata chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangiat Rangitoto Island.
In 1842 the Company presented gifts to local Māori upon establishing its Nelson settlement. In 1844 a Crown-appointed commissioner investigated the Company’s purchases. He heard only one Māori witness in Nelson before suspending the inquiry to enable the Company to negotiate a settlement...
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...to the upper Rangitikei area. Three Ngāti Apa signed the Treaty of Waitangi at Tawhirihoe pa in May 1840.
In 1844 Commissioner William Spain investigated a claim by the New Zealand Company to have purchased a large area in the Whanganui region from Māori. Ngāti Apa had interests in this land but were not consulted on the claim nor were their interests recognised in Spain’s final report recommending that the Company be awarded 40,000 acres. In 1848 the Crown completed the Whanganui purchase...
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