Signing
Signature | Sheet | Signed as | Probable name | Tribe | Hapū | Signing Occasion |
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21 | Sheet 7 — The Herald (Bunbury) Sheet | Pukeko | Pūkeko | Ngāti Toa? | Cloudy Bay 17 June 1840 |
Pūkeko signed the Herald (Bunbury) sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi on 17 June 1840, on board HMS Herald anchored in Cloudy Bay in Marlborough. He was a Ngāti Toa rangatira (chief) from Porirua.
In 1847 Pūkeko was listed as one of the owners of the Wairau Block. [1] In 1858 he was part of a group of Ngāti Toa rangatira who were paid £240 for their claim to land in Aotea, Whaīngaroa, and Kāwhia, Ngāti Toa’s base before they migrated south in 1822. [2]
Pūkeko was part of a group who wrote to Governor Gore Browne in 1860 askling that the Kohimarama conferences be made permanent as a way to solve the troubles affecting Māori and Pākehā and spread peace across the land. [3]
Horopapera Pūkeko was one of a Ngāti Toa group who in 1854 received £2,000 of a promised £3,000 in return for giving up all claims to land in the South Island. [4]
[2] ‘Claims of Ngatitoa on West Coast, Whaingaora district’, Maori deeds of land purchases in the North Island of New Zealand: Volume one, H. Hanson Turton, George Didsbury, 1877
[3] ‘Friday, August 3rd, 1860’, Proceedings of the Kohimarama Conference, comprising nos. 13 to 18 of the “Maori Messenger”
[4] ‘Receipt for £2,000 paid to Ngatitoa Tribe’, A compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island, Volume one, Alexander Mackay
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