Basic: The arrest, trial and execution of Māketu Wharetōtara

The first judicial execution took place .....

• 1839

• 1840

• 1842

• 1843

The person who was first officially executed was known as

• Makoare

• Moerewa

• Maketū

• Ruhe

Wharerahi and Rewa were signifcant rangatira in the Bay of Islands as they had both signed He Whakaputunga o Rangatiratanga o Nu Tirene ( The Declaration of Independence) and Te Tiriti

• True

• False

Wharerahi and Rewa were leading figures of which hapū of Nga Puhi

• Ngāi Tawake

• Te Popoto

• Ngāti Hine

• Ngāti Hau

Elizabeth Roberton's husband died leaving her continue to run a small farm on island purchased from Wharerahi and Rewa. She employed which person to help her manage the farm

• William Brind

• Thomas Bull

• Māketu Wharetōtara

• Ocatvius Hadfield

Māketu allegedly struck Thomas Bull with an axe and turned on Elizabeth Roberton and the children

• True

• False

Isabella Brind, one of the children killed during the incident was the granddaughter of which rangatira.

• Ruhe

• Rewa

• Rauparaha

• Ruatara

Thomas Bull was cruel to Māketu.

• True

• False

The name of the island that Elizabeth Roberton and her two children lived on is called

• Moturoa

• Motuhuie

• Motutapu

• Motuarohia

The event caused fear amongst the local settler community because

• hundreds of Māori from the area came together in one place to discuss the matter

• the outnumbered settler community in the Bay of Islands believed that widespread conflict could erupt

• Māketu was out of control

• the three hundred Māori assembled refused to give Māketu up to the local British Authorities.