Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 17, 2016 5:29:52 GMT 12
Bay of Plenty Times 17/2/16
LITTLEWOOD TREATY MUDDIES WATER
I fully agree with your correspondent P Burrell who challenges Peter Dey’s opinion on treaty matters.
To further complicate Mr Dey, I wonder if he has read The Littlewood Treaty by Martin Doutre?
Every expert on the treaty knows that the final English draft had gone missing in 1840. When this Littlewood treaty was discovered 150 years later in the home of solicitor Henry Littlewood, Claudia Orange referred to the lost final draft as “this could be the one that was never located”.
The handwriting is proved by NZ’s leading handwriting expert Dr Phil Parkinson of the National Archives to be that of James Busby and the paper is watermarked W Tucker 1833 and is known to be from Police Magistrate James Clendon’s private stock of paper and no other.
In 2000, the late Ngapuhi chief Graham Rankin said: “The official English text on the treaty being used today is radically different from the Maori version in both wording and meaning, but the Littlewood treaty wording is exactly the same as the Maori version.”
How embarrassing for the gravy- t r ai n advocates t hi s inconvenient truth must be, with no mention at all of forests and fisheries.
R B
Tauranga
LITTLEWOOD TREATY MUDDIES WATER
I fully agree with your correspondent P Burrell who challenges Peter Dey’s opinion on treaty matters.
To further complicate Mr Dey, I wonder if he has read The Littlewood Treaty by Martin Doutre?
Every expert on the treaty knows that the final English draft had gone missing in 1840. When this Littlewood treaty was discovered 150 years later in the home of solicitor Henry Littlewood, Claudia Orange referred to the lost final draft as “this could be the one that was never located”.
The handwriting is proved by NZ’s leading handwriting expert Dr Phil Parkinson of the National Archives to be that of James Busby and the paper is watermarked W Tucker 1833 and is known to be from Police Magistrate James Clendon’s private stock of paper and no other.
In 2000, the late Ngapuhi chief Graham Rankin said: “The official English text on the treaty being used today is radically different from the Maori version in both wording and meaning, but the Littlewood treaty wording is exactly the same as the Maori version.”
How embarrassing for the gravy- t r ai n advocates t hi s inconvenient truth must be, with no mention at all of forests and fisheries.
R B
Tauranga