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By Thomas and Josh

TREATY OF WAITANGI10 years prior to the treaty, the

Maori Chiefs were encouraged to form a government but the chiefs could not agree. So the British thought that they should become under their rule.

Captain William Hobson was sent to negotiate the Treaty.

In February the 6th 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi was signed at the Bay of Islands by Hobson and several English residents and approximately 45 Maori rangatira.

The Maori version was sent all around New Zealand collecting 500 signatures. And only 13 of them are women.

The English version was signed by only 39 Waikato and Manukau heads.