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This began to change with the Colonial Naval Defence Act 1865, which required all ships owned by colonial governments to fly the defaced Royal Navy blue ensign with a colonial badge. New Zealand did not have a colonial badge, or indeed a coat of arms of its own at this stage, and so the letters "NZ" were added to the blue ensign. [24]
In 1839, the New Zealand Company announced plans to buy large tracts of land and to establish colonies in New Zealand. [61] This and the increased commercial interests of merchants in Sydney and London spurred the British Government to take stronger action. [62] The Government sent Captain William Hobson to New Zealand to be lieutenant governor ...
New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. ... Following colonisation, immigrants were predominantly from Britain, ...
New Zealand Association formed in London, becoming the New Zealand Colonisation Society in 1838 and the New Zealand Company in 1839, under the inspiration of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. 1838. Bishop Pompallier founds Roman Catholic Mission at Hokianga. 1839. William Hobson instructed to establish British rule in New Zealand, as a dependency of New ...
Although the current New Zealand flag remains a popular symbol of New Zealand, there have been proposals from time to time for the New Zealand flag to be changed. Proponents of a new flag argued "[t]he current New Zealand Flag is too colonial and gives the impression that New Zealand is still a British colony and not an independent nation." [42]
The Nanto-Bordelaise Company — formally La Compagnie de Bordeaux et de Nantes pour la Colonisation de l’Île du Sud de la Nouvelle Zélande et ses Dépendances — was a French company inaugurated in 1839 by a group of merchants from the cities of Nantes and Bordeaux, with the purpose of founding a French colony in the South Island of New Zealand.
New Zealand passed on a chance to become part of Australia in 1901. [51] [52] In 1907 the United Kingdom granted New Zealand "Dominion" status within the British Empire, the high death toll from the First World War and in 1920 New Zealand joined the League of Nations as a sovereign state. Other regions particularly in the North Island also ...
Prior to British colonisation, New Zealand politics were dominated by Māori chiefs as leaders of iwi and hapū, utilising Māori customs as a political system. New Zealand became a British colony after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.