Lost in Translation 3 - The Waitangi Sheet (episode three)

This third episode of Mike King’s Treaty series heads north. After the 43 signatures at Waitangi on 6 February 1840, Queen Victoria decreed that more were needed for the Treaty to gain legitimacy, and Governor Hobson took the Waitangi Sheet to the people. King talks to Professor Pat Hohepa about the role of missionaries, and his tīpuna Mohi Tawhai. He visits key Northland locales — where he hears of anti-Treaty Pākehā like ‘Cannibal’ Jack Marmon — and meets a descendant of Nopera Panakareao, who recalls his ancestor’s famous shadowy reading of the Treaty.

Only the shadow of the land passes to the Queen. The substance stays with us, the Māori people.

– Nopera Panakareao

Key Cast & Crew

Haunui Royal

Director

Bruce Morrison

Director

Dianne Lindesay

Producer

Mike King

Presenter

Vaughan Scott

Camera

Paul Clark

Camera