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[DJRU2]

A Historian at Archives NZ pointed out to me that even tho Maori were granted all the rights of British subjects under the treaty, there was also a clause stating that all land transactions had to go thru the Crown.

But British subjects can sell their worldly possessions to whomever they choose; why couldnt Maori? and were there other cases of legality discriminating against Maori?

Was there ever really 'One Law for all'??

[SteveWrathall]

@DJRU2 This clause was (as it turns out) a very short-term measure to protect Maoris from land sharks. A reading of the Treaty in totality reveals a document with equal rights at its core. The real 1840 Treaty, that is. Not the fake one that was invented in the 1980s that has the word "partnership" in it.

[DJRU2]

@SteveWrathall That's a story yes.

Lord Normanby's breif to Hobson about land to be purchased by the crown: "the price to be paid to the natives by the local Government will bear an exceedingly small proportion to the price for which the same lands will be re-sold by the Government to the settlers, nor is there any real injustice in this inequality."

Normanby's brief provided the framework for Hobson's 'treaty'; this method was the approved way to acquire land in Aotearoa.

Who r the sharks?

[deankett7]

Interesting British perspective.