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Why the Treaty came About?

The British never wanted to set up a colony in New Zealand.

The British Parliament had traditionally opposed any such

Move, ever since Captain James Cook first visited NZ in 1769.

Even though petitions came before British parliament from

Maori Chiefs, Settlers & Missionaries to set up a Protectorate
and Colony

The Maori Chiefs petitioned Britain urgently because from 1820

the Inter-tribal Musket wars had killed 60,000 Maori. The wars were

the result of ‘Utu’ revenge between warring tribes and had nothing

to do with the British.

One Nga puhi chief Hongi Hika decimated tribes in Tamaki, Thames, Rotorua, Waikato and as far as the Cook Strait

Many Maori Chiefs like Tamati Waka Nene saw all the inter-tribal warring

as utterly hopeless, he knew the British had just won the ‘Battle of Trafalgar’ and were the most powerful force on the sea. He petitioned for the British Monarch to take sovereignty to quell the intertribal fighting.

A takeover from the French was also looming and this was another Catalyst for Maori to plead for British intervention and establish a New Zealand Colony

The British parliament warmed very slowly & reluctantly to the idea of a Colony in NZ. Britain didn’t want France occupying the country right next door to their Australian colony.

Captain William Hobson wrote a report recommending a British Colony in

NZ & was eventually chosen for the task of securing a treaty with a high level of justice, integrity & humanity as defined by Lord Normanby’s brief.

The British would only enter in to the Treaty if the Maori ceded Sovereignty to Queen Victoria.

When it became time to draw up the treaty Captain Hobson became so unwell he was unable to leave the ship.

Captain Hobson had drawn up a number of early drafts for the treaty but was too unwell to complete the final draft, He desired the final draft be written by James Busby

Which is why the Final draft of the Treaty of Waitangi is written in the handwriting of James Busby

The Final Draft written in English is also known as the “Littlewood Treaty”

The Final English draft (littlewood treaty) was finished on 4 February 1840

then translated from English into Maori by the Reverend Henry Williams and his son Edward

‘Treaty of Waitangi’ or otherwise known as ‘Ti tiriti o waitangi’ 6 February 1840 was then signed by the Chiefs and New Zealand became a Colony of Britain

The Final English Draft (Littlewood Treaty) and the Treaty of Waitangi ‘ti tiriti o waitangi’ are one and the same in meaning and interpretation

‘Ti Tiriti o Waitangi’ is NZ’s real Treaty, signed by 540 chiefs in scattered districts throughout the country. The Treaty is a collection of 9 archived Sheets.

All of the early rough Drafts, the Final Draft Littlewood Treaty and the Treaty of Waitangi’s 9 pages are kept at the National Archives in Wellington

And can be viewed online

Loyal Chiefs who put their lives at risk to ensure a unified New Zealand were:

Tamati Waka Nene,

Chief Mohi Tawhia &

Chief Eruera Mahi Patuone

‘He Iwi Tahi Tatou’ – We Are Now One People

Sir Apirana Ngata made the point in 1922:

The Maori did not have any government when the European first came to these islands. There was no unified chiefly authority over man or land, or any one person to decide life or death, one who could be designated a King, …There was without doubt Maori chieftainship, but it was limited in its scope to its sub-tribe, and even to only a family group, The Maori did not have authority or a government which could make laws to govern the whole of the Maori Race. “

The Littlewood Treaty Missing

After the 1840’s The Final English Draft Littlewood Treaty went missing

NZ historians have always claimed there was a Final ‘English’ Draft of the Treaty but that it had gone missing

In 1989 the Littlewood Treaty was discovered in a small envelope

by the Littlewood Family while tidying up their mothers estate

It was discovered that the Final English Draft of the Treaty of Waitangi had

been handed to Attorney Henry Littlewood in 1840 for safe keeping this is why it is called The Littlewood Treaty

The Final English Draft (littlewood) has been verified as a genuine document by the National Archives. It has also been verified that

It was written by James Busby written on the 4^th February 1840

However the Final English Draft (Littlewood treaty) has never been recognized by Law in NZ as the true interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi

Many Academics and Historians of NZ claim the Final English Draft is still

Missing and so they interpret the meaning of the Treaty of Waitangi using

The old rough draft letters of Captain Hobson 3 February 1840

Our Real Treaty of Waitangi has been replaced – this happened when the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 went through parliament.

It is inconvenient for those who put this Act through parliament that the Littlewood treaty Final English Draft was found in 1989 as it does not have the same interpretation as the old rough Draft letters of Captain Hobson

for example:

The Treaty of Waitangi & the Littlewood Treaty both state in Article II:

“Ki nga Rangitira ki nga hapu – ki nga tangata katoa o Nu Tirani” which translates into

‘To the chiefs and tribes and all the people of NZ’

The Treaty of Waitangi guarantees for all the people of NZ equality, with no special customary rights set aside, exclusively, for any one ethnic group.

The Treaty of Waitangi has no references to ‘Forestry or Fisheries.

There is only provision for Maori Chiefs to cede their sovereignty to Queen Victoria. So that they and their people can become British subjects and the recipients of British Laws protections and Justice.

So How can this happen to our Treaty of Waitangi?

The Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 stemmed from minorities in society and Law changes as you will see

Firstly through the King Movement

One group namely the King Movement (hau hau’s , Kingitanga movement) in the Waikato have a history of challenging the Treaty’s sovereignty, however they were in the minority.

Secondly through the Statute of Westminster

In 1947 New Zealand became Independent of Britain by Adopting the ‘Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947’

Thirdly through race based (American Civil rights) activism:

In the 50’s and 60’s during the time of the Civil rights in America the ‘Black Panther movement made it’s way into NZ, influencing the ‘Polynesian Panther’ movement.

In the 4^th term of the Labour Government in 1973 plans were implemented from both of these minority movements the (Hau Hau’s ) or King Movement & race based Polynesian Panthers ‘revisionists’ to overturn the Treaty of Waitangi document.

The Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975

Norman Kirk was the Prime minister of New Zealand in 1972 through to 1974 when he died suddenly. He was succeeded by Hugh Watt in the interim and then eventually Bill Rowling took over in 1974, when the new Treaty of Waitangi Act was rushed through parliament in 1975

This law overturned the Treaty of Waitangi and replaced it with new meanings by using old rough draft letters that were never signed by the chiefs of New Zealand

So The Waitangi Tribunal does not use the Real Treaty of Waitangi ‘Te Tiriti o Waitangi’ that was signed by the Chiefs!

This 3^rd February rough draft is what the Waitangi Tribunal uses today along with Principals created in the 1980’s by Geoffrey palmer under the State Owned Enterprises Act 1986.

State Owned Enterprises Act 1986 ‘Principles’

What are these Principles? They are not written in the Treaty of Waitangi!

Inserted inside the SOE Act 1986 are the created principles of the Treaty & the phrase that binds the ‘Crown’

‘nothing in this Act shall permit the Crown to act in a manner that is inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi’

Principles that were created by Geoffrey Palmer to help give favour to Act party’s Richard Prebble. A rushed addition to legislation that for the first time put destructive idea’s of ‘biculturalism’ and race-based political ‘partnership’ on the table and into courts and to folk who saw the chance to make piles of money.

Richard Prebble was so excited to “get things done” he didn’t care how he did them. So when, as Minister of State-Owned Enterprises in the Fourth Labour Government, he wanted to sell state-owned enterprises to quieten down the race-based dissent that started to affect the Labour’s relations with its Maori voting base, he asked his colleague Geoffrey Palmer to insert a section in the new State-Owned Enterprises Act the phrase “principles of Treaty of Waitangi,” insisting that “decision-makers” must have regard to these Principles. Here’s all their now infamous Section 9 said:

Nothing in this Act shall permit the Crown to act in a manner that is inconsistent with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.

What were these Principles? No one knew.

Had they ever been defined? No, they hadn’t.

Did these two clowns have any idea what they might have started? Not a bit of it.

So in order to get the sales under way, these two simply brought these Principles into being without ever defining what these Principles are.

RICHARD PREBBLE DIDN’T CARE. He just wanted to sell things. And Geoffrey Palmer didn’t care, because his life’s work was based around writing legislation so vague, so ambiguous, that it allowed the courts to define things any way they wanted to. This, said the Idiot Palmer, is how you make law “flexible”: by giving the courts bullets which they could elect to fire in any direction they wished.

The result is that to this day no-one knows with any kind of clarity what these “principles” are supposed to be. They were a legal fiction waiting for courts to define and redefine, and for litigants to quarry in an attempt to make their fortune—which they did, in their droves.

NZ First Deletion of Principals Bill 2006

New Zealand First MP Doug Woolerton has tried to submit a ‘Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Deletion Bill’ through parliament which was unsuccessful because it was tied into the SOE Act 1986

Finale

Although the Littlewood Treaty is , without doubt, the final English draft of the Treaty of Waitangi and the document handed to Henry Williams for translation into the Maori language at 4pm on the 4^th February 1840, the fact is still kept muted and shrouded in secrecy.

Word Original Meanings:

Taonga = Property procured by the spear

Kawanatanga = Sovereignty = Governorship

Tino Rangatiratanga = possession of land and property ( but never absolute sovereignty as that had been ceeded)

NZ has so much division and we need to be one people as the Treaty of Waitangi Intended ‘He Iwi Tahi Tataou’ – we are all one people.

We need to unify & recognize the importance of our Original Treaty of Waitangi ti tiriti o waitangi, and the Final English Draft ‘The Littlewood Treaty’!

It is a concern for all the people of New Zealand to know the truth regarding these founding NZ documents

The Treaty of Waitangi was to bring Unity, it should be a celebration day for one people, all the people of New Zealand.

Or are we going to continue to accept these created ‘principles’ and live under division and hatred. Since 1975 there has been an incredible amount of mishandling of the truth! We have lived too long under racial division.

If we still live under a Democracy, then we should have a referendum on this! A Royal Commission of Inquiry ..

George Orwell

Those who control the past, control the future;

Those who control the future, control the present,

Those who control the present, control the past.

Source:

The Littlewood Treaty - the true English text of the Treaty of Waitangi Found - Martin Doutre
The Great Divide - Ian Wishart
One NZ Foundation - Ross Baker

PC Blogspot - Peter Cresswell

Littlewood Treaty & NZ's Treaty of Waitangi

Saturday 18 August 2012

The Littlewood Treaty - Treaty of Waitangi