Mr Dey (Sun19 April), the ‘Littlewood Draft' is conclusively Hobson's final draft of the Treaty. Simply do the research and acknowledge that only the legitimate maori version of the Tiriti-o-Waitangi was signed at Waitangi on 6 February 1840. Freeman's flowery ‘royal style' back mistranslation (around ½ dozen different versions) followed sometime after the treaty signing and a copy was it seems sent by Freeman to NSW Governor Gipps on 21 February 1840. The Treaty itself was not regarded as having any legal significance until 1975 (perhaps not even then) not being recognisable as a treaty in International law. See the Privy Council decision Heu Heu (1941) case which confirmed this. Separatists, revisionists and maori interests have been busy re inventing history since 1975. Please go and read Lord Normanby's 14 August 1839 instructions to Hobson and Lord Russell's 5 December 1840 instructions to Hobson. Also check out www.treatyofwaitangi.net.nz (Clendon's dispatches).
Accept the position that the Treaty is a relic of the past and most of us want to live in today's world. Either get over your obsession or if you don't wish to be a NZ citizen sharing equal rights with your fellow citizens, then please move to place where inequality is the state law and where they will grant you special separatism privileges.

R Paterson, Matapihi.