George Gipps

Ko Tā George Gipps (1791-1847, Kāwana o New South Wales 1837-1846) te Kāwana tuatahi o Aotearoa. Nō te tau 1839 i whakarerekēngia te kupu whakamana i a ia, ā, i taua wā i tōhua ia hei Kāpene-Tianara, hei Kāwana Matua hoki mō taua rohe, mō New South Wales. Ka taka i ēnei taupā hou ngā whenua katoa o Aotearoa ki raro i tō Ingarangi mana. Ko te whakaaro, he te mahi nei he mahi rangitahi, he whakaruru mō te whakahaere o ēnei o ngā whenua, kia taea rawatia ai te whakatūturu i ngā whakaritenga. Nō te 18 o Whiringa-ā-rangi,  1840, ko te whakapūmautanga tūturutanga i aua whakaritenga. Taro kau ake kua tau te mana o Ingarangi ki runga o ngā moutere o Aotearoa, e rua wiki noa iho i muri. Nā te Kāwanatanga o te Emepaea i whakapuaki te Reta Whakamana, he reta whakarite i tēnei whenua hei koroni motuhake, i raro i a Te Hopihona, arā, i tōna Kāwana ake.

Ka riro mai i te mana o Ingarangi ki Aotearoa, nā Gipps anō i whakawhānui te horanga o tōna mana ki aua whenua, i te wā tonu i a Te Hopihona e wehe mai ana i Poihākena. Ka puta te whakapuaki hoki a Gipps i te 19 o ngā rā o Kohi-tātea 1840 mō te tino rāhui o ngā hoko whenua o ngā Māori, me te aha, e kore te Karauna e whakamana ngā hoko i mua i taua rā. Nō te marama o Māehe 1840 ka pāngia e te mate a Te Hopihona, ā, hei tautoko i te mana o Hopihona ka whakatūria a Meiha Thomas Bunbury me tana ope hōia. Ko te take, ki te mate rawa a Te Hopihona, ki te tino hē rānei, koia rā ka riro mā Bunbury te mana kāwana hei Rūtene-Kāwanatanga kairīwhi. Ko ngā tohutohu a Gipps i a Hopihona i roto i ngā whakahaerenga o tana tūranga he whakawhirinaki mā Te Hopihona i te wā i tae mai ai te Kamupene o Niu Tīreni me ana kaiwhakanoho whenua, ahakoa tō rātou kore e whakaae kia tau ki runga i a rātou te mana kāwanatanga.

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