[Tropo-Bob (Bob)]

Originally Posted by PCH

Hi Bob,

There definitely was a 'handing over' deal struck between the Brits and the Maoris. Check out the 'Treaty of Waitangi' - the site of which is preserved beautifully as the location where ownership and control changed hands.

There were a couple of significant differences in the way the handover was negotiated, but I won't spoil it for you. Interesting reading though!

Thanks Paul,

It was an interesting read. Gosh, the colony of NZ was only separated from the colony of New South Wales in 1841.

It really brings home how recent "White" history is on the geological timescale of our lands. And even Indigenous history is a mere speck in cosmological terms ...