Chief Justice declares treaty 'worthless' and a 'simple nullity'

17/10/19

Chief Justice Sir James Prendergast was an attorney-general from 1865 to 1875, following with becoming a chief justice of the the Supreme Court until 1899. The Wi Parata case was a situation where a block of land was given to the Anglican Church in understanding that a school would be built, though it never happened. The church was later issued a Crown grant to the land. Prendergast believed that The Treaty of Waitangi was ‘worthless’ because it had been signed ‘between a civilised nation and a group of savages’.

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