Waitangi Tribunal Part 2 Report on stage 1 of the Te Paparahi o Te Raki inquiry [pdf, 4.4 MB]
...Office’s dislike of amateur advice and interference’, regardless of where it came from. he added that Glenelg, Grey, and Stephen ‘were all wary of Dandeson Coates, who was by no means on the intimate terms with them or with the Colonial Office files that has sometimes been supposed’.54 Into 1838, therefore, there was now relative uniformity of opinion in Britain among the missionaries, colonis- ers, and the Government as to the necessity for the estab- lishment of an official Bri...