Waitangi Tribunal - Part 1 Rangahaua Whānui District Auckland [pdf, 6.3 MB]
...they had to interpret their information and above all to answer intriguing questions ... their preconceptions grossly distorted their conceptions'.2 Stephenson Percy Smith's The Peopling of the North and Chief Judge Fenton's Orakei judgment, two sources used extensively in this report, focusing on lands (Kaipara and Tamaki-makau-rau) associated with Ngati Whatua; Smith's subsequent major publication, Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century; and George Graham's hist...