Geoff Parker: The Crown, The Treaty, The Promises And The Waitangi Tribunal

At the centennial of the Treaty of Waitangi 1940 Sir Apirana Ngata said: “Let me acknowledge first that, in the whole world I doubt whether any native race has been so well treated by a European people as the Maori”

Occasionally, it is alleged that the Government failed to uphold ‘Treaty promises’ in the nineteenth century. Here is my response to that allegation…