16 January 2025
File Ref: OIA 50331
Grace Haden
[FYI request #29401 email]
Tēnā koe Ms Haden
Official Information Act request
Thank you for your information request dated
1 December 2024.
You requested the following
information:
“please provide all documents which consider the validity of the treaty now given that
1. the translation and English text do not co relate
2. not all Maori signed the english version
3. the British appear to have breached the treaty by removing british citizenship as confered in the
third article
please provide documentation which shows that an issue was raised with Britain for removing the
citizenship status from Maori in direct breach of the treaty
please provide discusion papers and evidence that show that the agreement made at a time before
New Zealand was a colony is binding on a nation which has evolved as a independent self
governing state of non british citizens
Please provide the legislative refences which make the non maori population of the current New
Zealand Government and its citizens party to the treaty of waitangi
By virtue of hte citizenship act 1977 we are New Zealand citizens or not Please provide evidence
that Maori have differnt rights to any other citizen regardles of how many generations we have been
here or our heritage.
.. in contract law we are not pary to an agreement that was not made by us, unless there is
somehting that binds us I am looking for that evidence
On the issue of " cede " the google translation of the first article reads The Chiefs of the
Commonwealth and al the Chiefs who have joined that Commonwealth shall forever cede to the
Queen of England the whole Government of their lands.
By way of OIA what Maori dictionary was used for the interpretation which lacks the word Cede ,
and when was that dictionary first published
what evidence does a person need to have to claim they are Maori”
We do not consider the information you have requested constitutes a request for official
information as defined by the Official Information Act 1982 (
OIA). Official Information means
any information held by an agency that is subject to the OIA and Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987. Te Puni Kōkiri does not hold the information you have
requested.
For further information for requesters of official information, I refer you to the Office of the
Ombudsman’s guide “
Making official information requests: A guide for requesters” -
https://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/resources/making-official-information-requests-
guide-requesters.
We suggest you consider contacting the National Library who may be able to assist you with
accessing some of the relevant documents or information -
https://natlib.govt.nz/about-
us/contact-us.
I trust my response satisfies your request.
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Nāku noa, nā
Steven Sutton
Hautū, Te Puni Tapatahi | Deputy Secretary, Governance
