Our True Treaty

Port Waikato & Manukau Treaty signings did not go to plan in 1840, the Official Treaty document did not arrive in time. Chiefs were gathering and Reverend Robert Maunsell had to find a solution. He had a "Printed sheet with Maori Text" on it, this was legitimately the same as the Treaty used at Waitangi on the 6th of February 1840. It was the words the Maori Chiefs heard and the interpretations of those words were what they signed, 5 Chiefs signed this, and unfortunately ran out of room. Scrambling to find another suitable paper that could be used a 'ruined English Treaty memorial sheet was substituted' It was however unsuitable not only due to being written in the English Language (as "All Treaties" must be in the native tongue, Maori) but secondly unsuitable as it bore the tortured signature of Governor William Hobson after he had had a stroke. The English "Formal Royal Style" version sheet was based on discarded obsolete rough draft notes and was written by James Stuart Freeman, a man who had been through Eton in England and had learned not only to write in beautiful style and language but how to write in memorial style to kings and queens wording that would be befitting of their presence, which is why the English memorial document is so very different to all other versions. The 32 Chiefs signed on to this "Overflow" English substitute sheet, then a wax seal was attached to the top left front corner of it and joined to the Printed sheet, it was also pinned through the top. The two sheets became a 'Make do' Treaty sheet explained to the Chiefs in the Maori language, officially sealed and approved by Hobson.
Years later the two sheets were forcefully separated and torn apart in a move to deceitfully alter the true version of the Treaty by introducing terms that were in the ruined memorial English sheet that were never in Te Tiriti (The Treaty of Waitangi signed at Waitangi 6 Feb 1840).
This has been used to undermine the true meaning of the Treaty, cause confusion, theft and instigate a major scam on the New Zealand Public.
Further in 1989 the long lost Final English Draft of the Treaty was finally found in the paperwork of the Littlewood family. The Final English Draft is now known as the Littlewood Treaty. It gives the exact meaning and intention of the Treaty of Waitangi that was signed by the Chiefs in 1840. There are no mistakes in its intention it is very clear, the Chiefs ceeded sovereignty to the Queen of England in exchange for the rights , priviledges and protections.

Over the many years till today, European Pakeha and Maori have enjoyed a society of harmony, so much so that New Zealand was reknown around the world for this.

It would be a very different history today, for Maori, had this country ended up in the hands of the French, something they were terrified of and which they very nearly did.

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