page_title: Waitangi, Northland
section_title: The Treaty House
hierarchical_section_title: Waitangi, Northland / History and culture / The Treaty House
caption_attribution_description: English: 5 segment panorama of James Busby's house in Waitangi, New Zealand. New Zealand Historic Places Trust Register number: 6.
context_page_description: Waitangi is a locality in the Bay of Islands on the North Island of New Zealand. It is close to the town of Paihia, 60 kilometres north of Whangarei. "Waitangi" is a Māori-language name meaning "weeping waters".
  Waitangi is best known for being the location where the Treaty of Waitangi was first signed on February 6, 1840. It is also the place where the Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was signed five years earlier, on October 28, 1835. This document was ratified by the British Crown the following year.
context_section_description: What is now called the 'Treaty House' was first occupied by James Busby, who acted as the British resident in New Zealand from 1832 until the arrival of William Hobson, and his wife Agnes Busby. In preparation for New Zealand Centenary in 1940 the Treaty House was restored in the 1930s, and the Māori meeting house was built beside it, sparking the first emergence of the Treaty into Pākehā attention since the 19th century.
caption: James Busby's house at Waitangi
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