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Exploring New Zealand's interior

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  After charting the coastline, European surveying and exploration of the interior were a fundamental part of the settlement process, defining the boundaries of ownership and identifying resources, useable land and access routes.

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• Page 1 - Exploring New Zealand's interior After charting the coastline, European surveying and exploration of the interior were a fundamental part of the settlement process, defining the boundaries of ownership and

Treaty timeline

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  See some of the key events between 1800 and 1849 relating to the Treaty of Waitangi.

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• Page 1 - Treaty events 1800-49See some of the key events between 1800 and 1849 relating to the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Wairau incident

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  On 17 June 1843, 22 European settlers and four Māori were killed when an armed party of New Zealand Company settlers clashed with Ngāti Toa over the purchase of land in the Wairau Valley, near modern-day Blenheim.

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• Page 2 – Ngāti Toa and the New Zealand Company

  The Wairau incident had its origins in the migration of Ngāti Toa and its allies from Kāwhia to the Kapiti region of the southern North Island.

• Page 3 – Violence erupts

  When Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata told William Wakefield to stop the survey, he instructed his brother Arthur to ignore their opposition.

• Page 4 – The fallout from Wairau

  The news from Wairau shocked settlers throughout the colony. The killing of men who had surrendered was viewed as cold-blooded murder. Many feared that these events signalled

British & Irish immigration, 1840-1914

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  Who were the ancestors of Pākehā New Zealand? Where did they come from and what sort of people were they? These are some of the questions which this feature sets out to answer.

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• Page 3 – Where did they come from?

  The composition of the inflow from Britain and Ireland was quite different from the composition of the United Kingdom as a whole.

• Page 4 – The English

  Table and graph showing which part of England immigrants to New Zealand came from.

• Page 5 – The Scots

  Table and graph showing which part of Scotland immigrants to New Zealand came from.

• Page 9 – Conclusions

  These statistics suggest some larger conclusions about the character and values of New Zealand's founding Pākehā population

Taming the frontier

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  In 1832 James Busby was appointed as the official British Resident to New Zealand. After arriving in the Bay of Islands in May 1833 he took steps to tame what he saw as a chaotic frontier society.

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• Page 5 - Land issues on the eve of the Treaty of WaitangiIn the late 1830s the British government became concerned about how land was being obtained from Māori. Action was needed, it decided, to protect Māori from the worst ravages of