MLC - 150 years of the Māori Land Court [pdf, 11 MB]
...language, which he Chief Judge Francis Dart Fenton (ca 1870). 14 | 15 could speak and write fluently. He published an edition of early judgments of the Native Land Court in 1879. Fenton was from time to time entrusted with special duties and responsibilities by the government. He was, for example, given the responsibility of carrying out some important negotiations with Ngāti Whakaue and other Arawa tribes at Rotorua in 1880. This resulted in the so-called ‘Fenton Agreement’...