Land claims
Sir, —Sir Robert Muldoon seems to be a better politician than he is a historian. He is wrong if he says the South Island “was not proclaimed part of the colony of New Zealand by virtue of the Treaty of Waitangi.” It was, by Hobson’s deputy, at Cloudy Bay on June 17, 1840. It is true that, before this, on May 21, Hobson proclaimed British sovereignty over the South Island “by right of discovery.” But, nowadays, to believe that Hobson’s was a more valid proclamation one would have to be among those who still fondly believe that the British discovered New Zealand. As for Maori tribes holding their territory in 1840 by conquest, that unfortunately was also the prevailing custom in Europe — and continued to be, long after 1840. Of course, it is Sir Robert who is trying to put the clock back, with his eight-eenth-century arguments. —
Yours, etc., HARRY EVISON. August 19, 1988.
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