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Tiriti o Waitangi sheets: Manukau–Kāwhia

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This sheet of the treaty was taken to Manukau on 20 March 1840 by British army officer Captain William Symonds and James Hamlin of the Church Missionary Society. Just three rangatira of Ngāti Whātua agreed to sign it. The sheet was later sent to Kāwhia in Waikato, where another missionary, John Whiteley, gathered a further 10 signatures between April and September 1840.

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Claudia Orange, Te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi – Interpretations of te Tiriti o Waitangi – the Treaty of Waitangi, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/36343/tiriti-o-waitangi-sheets-manukau-kawhia (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Claudia Orange, published 5 June 2012, reviewed and revised 28 March 2023 with assistance from Claudia Orange. It was translated into te reo Māori by Basil Keane.