| | The Trail Of Waitangi - Waitangi Day Questions and Answers. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | There are several 'Waitangi's' mentioned in these pages, the one in relating to the 'Treaty of Waitangi' is in the 'Bay of Islands' on the north eastern side of the North Island of New Zealand. |
 | | Waitangi Day merely appears to celebrate the introduction of the Colonial political system, there being also religious and tribal pressures that have a great deal to do with the continuation of it as an issue, the idea of Waitangi Day being a public holiday being first proposed by four Labour—Ratana Maori MPs in 1957. |
 | | Because of the exploitation of land by some colonists, and problems associated with convicts and a lack of any laws, various of the early missionary, Mäori, and other Europeans considered that Mäori interests would be better protected by the British Crown or Queen. |
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