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Show - 21k - war, and follow after Rongo, god of neace." Each chief signed the treaty in his ox-n fashion. Moana was one of three women allowed to sign because of the snecial work they had aceomnlished in helning to bring this event to nass. Ouiet murmurs of assent and approval passed in "waves through the crowd of eager onlookers, as their own representatives took their turns at signing. Finally, as dignitaries, chiefs and officials, warriors, children and wives stood watching, the Union Jack x^ras raised high on a masthead, and. New Zealand was incorporated into the British Empire on the sixth day of the month called February, in the year eighteen hundred and forty. Messengers were dispatched to carry copies of the treaty to each settlement and tribe. Roa took the arm of his proud, and beautiful companion wife and escorted her silently and solemnly down from, the raised platform. One could scarcely see the slight swelling of her bellv. ^oa thought of the son they would have, further uniting the former enemy tribes. Ruruku's greeting and bread smile brought him out of his daydream. "Yes, brother, it has been |
