the Treaty of Waitangi

The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in the North Island of New Zealand in 1840 it tog 3 days for it to be signed because of all the people in the line .

A musket is a powerful weapon they used for defence it is a one shot weapon that can kill a man in one shot it can not go far it was meant to be a close range weapon that they used to kill a lot of people.

King Tawhiao stopped the war between maori and british by putting the gun down by the britishs feet and the british accepted to live together in peace and not harming each other.  

The treaty is how maori and british kept the peace and  lived together without war.

The first school that was made in 1974 in the waikato is the daycare in pirongia next to the  The museum.