Waitangi Tribunal theme D - Crown's right of preemption [pdf, 4.2 MB]
...participate' in the benefits of that increase.13 The nature of the proposed Crown dealings with Maori for their lands was further elaborated: • They were to be conducted with 'sincerity, justice, and good faith'. • Maori 'must not be permitted to enter into any contracts in which they might be the ignorant and unintentional authors of injuries to themselves'. Hobson was not, for example, to 'purchase from them any territory, the retention of which by...