In this mission station on the beachfront at Kohimarama (later Mission Bay), Auckland, the government called a national conference of chiefs in 1860. The conference aimed to defuse the anti-government feeling growing among Taranaki Māori, and to restate the commitment of both parties to the Treaty of Waitangi.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Urquhart Album (PA1-q-250)
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PA1-q-250-17
Photograph by John Nichol Crombie
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