Ross Baker

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

I wonder how the framers of the government’s soon-to-emerge New Zealand Histories Curriculum for school children would score in this one?

Part Two.

Questions


1. How was New Zealand’s government formed under one flag to make laws, irrespective of race, colour, or creed?

2. How did New Zealand get a political, justice and legal system?

3. When was the Legislative Council formed?

4. When was our first constitution issued and by whom?

5. When was the first sitting of the Legislative Council?

6. Who set up land titles and returned land to the chiefs that had been sold by them before 6 February 1840?

7. Why did Chief Justice Prendergast rule the Treaty a “simple nullity” in 1877?

8. Where does it say, the Treaty was “A Partnership between Maori and the Crown”?

Answers


1. 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.
2. 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.
3. May 3, 1841. Lt-Governor Hobson became Governor of New Zealand.
4. By “Victoria by the Grace of God” under “The Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”, dated 16 November 1840.
5. May 3, 1841. New Zealand formed a government under one flag and one law.
6. The New Zealand Colonial Government.
7. “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”.
8. There is absolutely nothing in the Treaty of Waitangi that mentions “A Partnership between Maori and the Crown”: absolutely nothing!

These 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.

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].

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