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 …
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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "New Zealand Association founded". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 January 2005 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1492, accessed 23 November 2024.]
