Waitangi Tribunal theme C - Customary land tenure [pdf, 1.2 MB]
...and parliamentarians: Harry Atkinson was Premier four times and died in office as speaker of the Legislative Council in 1892; C W Richmond and J C Richmond both filled the office of Native Minister at various times, and the former was still a Court of Appeal judge in 1895. Thus Wakefieldian settlers held many of the highest public posts in New Zealand for 40 and even 50 years after Waitangi. They were members of ministries which passed New Zealand’s most controversial legislation, especially...