Littlewood treaty to disappear

In 1989, John Littlewood and sister Beryl Needham found a hand-written Treaty of Waitangi text in a drawer while clearing out their mum’s house after she died. Their forebear was Henry Littlewood, a solicitor who worked in the Bay of Islands and Auckland in the 1840s, and who did work for the United States Consul of the time, James Clendon. This document became known as “the Littlewood treaty”.
Beryl Needham took the document to her local MP Bill Birch, who suggested that she should take it to the Auckland Institute and Museum for analysis, which she did, where it stayed for a year. Treaty expert Claudia Orange looked at the document, provided information about Henry Littlewood, and did no more.
The official disinterest in a discovered missing final draft of the treaty which did not include the phrase “lands and estates forests fisheries in article 2 coincided with top-level negotiations that resulted in the Treaty of Waitangi (Fisheries Claims) Settlement Act 1992. This official disinterest persisted as almost all licensed forest land and associated rentals were given to tribal corporations.
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