Rangahaua Whanui National Overview volume 2 [pdf, 1.7 MB]
...coast and catch on deeds of sale the signatures of unwary Maori. From the 1790s entrepreneurs based in Sydney began to place small parties on shore among Maori communities for the purpose of killing seals, trading flax, cutting timber and as depots for offshore whalers. In 1814 Marsden, with the agreement of Bay of Islands chiefs, established the Church Missionary Society in that area and negotiations for land for mission stations and farms began. In the 1820s traders began to establish posts...