Waitangi Tribunal - Whanganui land report [pdf, 827 KB]
...optimism of tangata whenua was perhaps even more evident in Whanganui than else- where, as they extended their customary manaaki to the newcomers from the outset. They employed the meta- phor of marriage between Māori land and pākehā settlers on formal occasions, and helped the new settlers to get established. There was no answering generosity or integrity on the part of the authorities. Negotiating the final stages of the Whanganui purchase in the late 1840s, officials duped Māori...