The Crown wanted the Maori to give the right to purchase their land in return for their own property being guaranteed to them and having the same rights as any of the British migrants. ... Williams owned over 11,000 acres of New Zealand land and wanted to protect this land (Basset, Sinclair, Stenson - The Story of NZ, 1998) which could be a motive as to mistranslating the Treaty of Waitangi. ... He continues to say " On inquiring Turoa whether he understood what he had signed, he repeated to me, that my Queen had sent him a blanket and that he had been told to make a mark in order to sho...

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