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Collected Item: “Indictment of Kihi - Hobson to Gipps”

Title

Indictment of Kihi - Hobson to Gipp

Year

1840

Description

Letter from Hobson to Governor Gipps of NSW telling him of the first indictment of a Māori for the killing of a European

Author/s

Lieutenant Governor Hobson of New Zealand

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State Record Office (e.g. The National Archives (Kew))

Repository name:

Archives New Zealand

Full archival reference/citation, eg: Smith to Grey, 10 November 1848, WCA KAB/GH Vol. 1/196 ref. 80

ANZ G 36/1, 71

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Aotearaoa/New Zealand

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Indigenous Peoples/First Nations

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Courts and other legal institutions

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Māori
indictment
magistrates
courts
criminal law

Contributed by:

Shaunnagh Dorsett

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Yes

Contributor email address

shaunnagh.dorsett@uts.edu.au
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