The New Zealanders and their Lands: The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on New Zealand, Considered in a Letter to Lord Stanley

The very scarce second edition of Dandeson Coates's criticism of the refusal to acknowledge the rights of the Maori of New Zealand to their land. The second edition, 'with additions, and an appendix', of this very scarce work, published in the same year as the first edition.This work "criticizes adversely the report [by Lord Stanley] which does not recognise the proprietary rights of the natives over their lands and ignores the faithful promises of the Treaty of Waitangi" , it also "gives a history of the relations between the natives and the Europeans to date", (Hocken).The author succinctly criticises Lord Stanley's report on the Maori and the land of New Zealand, dismissing him for the lack of acknowledgement that the Treaty of Waitangi had established the Maori's right to land. Unbound, as issued. Title page and final leaf age toned to perimeters, with light spotting. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good.