The New Zealand Association was founded in 1837 to promote New Zealand colonisation. The association was influenced by the arguments of Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862) that colonization could best proceed by selling small landholdings for a sufficient price, rather than by granting large tracts free to colonial promoters. When it failed to receive a royal charter for its work, the New Zealand Association become the joint-stock New Zealand Company in 1838 and funded an exploratory voyage by the vessel the Tory led by Edward's brother William in July-December 1839 to the Cook Strait. The company's agents used trickery, bribery, brutality and fraud to obtain nominal cession of Maori tribal land, thus obtaining the ground which would develop into Wanganui, and Wellington (1840) in theā¦
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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "New Zealand Association founded". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 January 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1492, accessed 29 March 2024.]