Waitangi Tribunal Part 2 Report on stage 1 of the Te Paparahi o Te Raki inquiry [pdf, 4.4 MB]
...fact of such large numbers of British subjects being already there, as to demand some legislative interference in the way of con- troul [sic]. It will not be friendship to the aborigines to leave them a prey to the unprincipled and lawless, under the plea of the injustice that might be done them by the establishment of a British colony among them. The non-interference has now gone on too long, not to justify and demand immediate interference.59 The authors followed up this comment by st...