Kāwhia, 3 September 1840

The last signature to be added to the Manukau-Kāwhia treaty sheet was from Wharekawa, who may have been from Whakatīwai in Waikato. He signed with a cross next to his name on 3 September 1840, presumably with Wesleyan (Methodist) missionaries James Wallis and John Whiteley present, though they did not sign next to his name as witnesses. A letter from W. C. Symonds, police magistrate, to Whiteley, dated 8 April, shows that Symonds sent the Manukau-Kāwhia sheet and some blankets (as gifts for signatories) to these missionaries and instructed them to gain signatures as far south as possible among Ngāti Maniapoto.

The addition of this signature made agreement almost unanimous to the treaty on the west coast of the North Island down to Mōkau. This copy of the treaty was then supposed to travel to Taranaki, but Whitely argued that because Taranaki was considered a conquered territory, the assent of Waikato (‘the conquerors’) would sufficiently cover this area. The Manukau-Kāwhia copy of the treaty was sent back to Governor William Hobson after 3 September, but was not sent on to the Colonial Office until 26 May 1841, and was thus not counted in the then-stated total of 512 signatures.