Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 1, 2023 15:56:41 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: "WHAT FRAUD, CLAUDIA?"
And so we review the lengthy commentary in “Newsroom” for 19th April 2023 of a new book headed “History of the tiriti fraud Dame Claudia Orange reveals the truth about the Treaty signing”. “Treaty fraud”? H’mmm – we’d better look into that! Indeed, one might even say: “about time!”
She starts: ”From 1840, Māori gradually became aware that they were no longer free to dispose of their lands as they chose. Under the terms of the Treaty/Te Tiriti, they could sell land only to the government.”
Well, yes, that is true but it is at best a half-truth. A little elucidation is necessary. Prior to 1840, Maori tribes, aware that they no longer needed extensive tracts of land to support their hunter-gatherer lifestyle, began a veritable frenzy of selling land to eager settlers in exchange for the variety of consumer goods the latter could offer. In the South Island alone, 179 sales were registered, in many of which reserves were set aside for Maori villages, gardens and burial plots.[ii].
Nevertheless, Hobson realized that chaotic selling of land would not be a good basis for establishing a British colony in New Zealand. Therefore, within twenty-four hours of his arrival,[iii] he had had Paihia Mission printer, Colenso, print a proclamation stating that, in the event that British sovereignty was accepted, all prior land sales would be reviewed and any future private sales considered null and void.
A commission was duly setup, one member being self-styled “Pakeha Maori”, Frederick Maning, whose land-buying attempts in the 1830s he described hilariously in his classic book.[iv] The commission was no paper tiger. For instance, two sales to one George Stephenson in the Kaipara district were disallowed.
And sharp practice was certainly not all on the colonist side. An 1878 letter from chiefs Ihaia Kirikumara and Tamati Tiraura stated that some Taranaki land had been sold three times by Maori sellers.[v] In one case land was sold five times…...
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/05/bruce-moon-what-fraud-claudia.html
And so we review the lengthy commentary in “Newsroom” for 19th April 2023 of a new book headed “History of the tiriti fraud Dame Claudia Orange reveals the truth about the Treaty signing”. “Treaty fraud”? H’mmm – we’d better look into that! Indeed, one might even say: “about time!”
She starts: ”From 1840, Māori gradually became aware that they were no longer free to dispose of their lands as they chose. Under the terms of the Treaty/Te Tiriti, they could sell land only to the government.”
Well, yes, that is true but it is at best a half-truth. A little elucidation is necessary. Prior to 1840, Maori tribes, aware that they no longer needed extensive tracts of land to support their hunter-gatherer lifestyle, began a veritable frenzy of selling land to eager settlers in exchange for the variety of consumer goods the latter could offer. In the South Island alone, 179 sales were registered, in many of which reserves were set aside for Maori villages, gardens and burial plots.[ii].
Nevertheless, Hobson realized that chaotic selling of land would not be a good basis for establishing a British colony in New Zealand. Therefore, within twenty-four hours of his arrival,[iii] he had had Paihia Mission printer, Colenso, print a proclamation stating that, in the event that British sovereignty was accepted, all prior land sales would be reviewed and any future private sales considered null and void.
A commission was duly setup, one member being self-styled “Pakeha Maori”, Frederick Maning, whose land-buying attempts in the 1830s he described hilariously in his classic book.[iv] The commission was no paper tiger. For instance, two sales to one George Stephenson in the Kaipara district were disallowed.
And sharp practice was certainly not all on the colonist side. An 1878 letter from chiefs Ihaia Kirikumara and Tamati Tiraura stated that some Taranaki land had been sold three times by Maori sellers.[v] In one case land was sold five times…...
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/05/bruce-moon-what-fraud-claudia.html