Waitangi Tribunal Part 2 Report on stage 1 of the Te Paparahi o Te Raki inquiry [pdf, 4.4 MB]
295 Chapter 6 The BriTish Move Towards annexaTion 6.1 Introduction We turn in this chapter to look at the immediate factors that resulted in the British Government’s decision in 1839 to instruct Captain William hobson to obtain a cession of sovereignty from rangatira over parts or all of New Zealand, and to establish the sov- ereign authority of the British Crown. We have seen in previous chapters that the British Government had maintained a policy of ‘minimum intervention’ in the p