25 May 1840Sheet 2 — The Manukau-Kāwhia Sheet
On 25 May 1840 one further signature was added to the Manukau-Kāwhia treaty sheet. This was, according to Āpirana Ngata, Hōrī Te Waru, from the Ngāti Te Apakura hapū (subtribe) of Waikato.
Though there are no specific witnesses recorded next to this signature, it can be assumed that the Wesleyan (Methodist) missionaries, James Wallis and John Whiteley, had obtained this signature. Whiteley had been instructed by W. C. Symonds, recently appointed police magistrate, to gain signatures to the treaty from ‘as far to the southward as possible among the Ngatimaniapoto’, after finding that Anglican missionary the Reverend Robert Maunsell had obtained signatures from the rest of the region at Waitako Heads. [1]
[1] Symonds to Whitely, quoted in R. S. Bennett, Treaty to treaty: a history of early New Zealand from the Treaty of Tordsillas 1494 to the Treaty of Waitangi 1840. Vol. 3. Auckland: R. S. Bennett, 2012, p. 282.
Signatories
Signature Number |
Signed as | Probable Name | Tribe | Hapū |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Te Waru | Hōri Te Waru | Waikato | Ngāti Te Apakura |
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