The Real Treaty?

It appears that the radically driven Waitangi gravy train might have something to think about with more noise being made about the confirmed existence of a earlier version of the treaty.

It seems that this English version, known as the Littlewood version, was lost until 1989 when it was turned up by descendants of a solicitor practicing at that time. This English version is likely to have been a master from which the Maori version was translated.

The differences between versions are apparent and it is suspected that the later Maori interpretation is not the true version. The government has recently conducted a road show on the treaty, with most people being totally uninterested and with poor numbers at showings.

I would suspect that this newly found version, which has not been well publicised or even had answered direct questions about it, is the true version. The various governments have certainly kept it quiet, preferring to continue pedaling their socialist agendas re Maori.

Not a good look, as the current Maori version has a whole racist grievance industry based on it, looking for large 'full and final settlements' that can be overturned every generation. The latest was the Maori Party coming from 10 left saying that even the smallest settlement should be accompanied by $20M minimum.

The bottom line, is that the largest empire in the world, hell bent on colonisation in the 1840's, would have not given anything away politically. Because of that, I suspect that this earlier version is authentic, but does not conveniently fit the recently rewritten history we have been force-fed. NZ was colonised 170 years ago, get over it and move on - no amount of present day hand-wringing or handouts will ever change that!