30 mai 1840 - Iwikau and Hone Tīkao sign Te Tiriti

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At a meeting at Ōnuku two days later, two chiefs signed the Herald sheet of the Treaty of Waitangi. The signatories were the chiefs Iwikau (Ngāti Rangiamoa) and John (Hone) Tīkao (Ngāi Te Kahukura, Ngāi Tuahuriri), who were given blankets. However, chiefs on the western side of the harbour, including Tuauau, Paruru, Tangatahara, Ruaparae and his son Akaroa, Mautai and Tamakeke decided to avoid meeting the British

Source: According to the French naval officer C.A. Lavaud, cited in Harry Evison, Te Wai Pounamu, p. 128