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A British army officer, Major Thomas Bunbury, carried this treaty sheet on board HMS Herald to Coromandel (where four rangatira signed it), the Mercury Islands (two) and a series of South Island ports (16). On 17 June 1840, he proclaimed British sovereignty over the South Island at Port Underwood in the Marlborough Sounds.

Major Bunbury then gained the signatures of rangatira Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata off Mana Island, near Kāpiti (although Te Rauparaha explained that he had already signed the sheet presented to him by Henry Williams). Finally, Bunbury obtained the signatures of three Hawke’s Bay rangatira near Ahuriri (present-day Napier). In total, 27 rangatira signed this sheet.

Read more about the people who signed this sheet.