But then we have a history of a Crown that failed the Moriori people. It's here that I want to focus particularly on what I would call "acts of omission"—the failure to act. In 1842, New Zealand annexed the Chatham Islands, and yet the Crown took no action to alleviate the conditions of Moriori enslavement that it was very well aware of. Letters were written to the Crown, appealing for it to exercise its Treaty of Waitangi obligation to offer protection to its subjects, and those letters fell on deaf ears. But the Moriori people continued and, in 1862, put a petition forward asking for those protections, and it was in 1863 that a resident magistrate was, in fact, put on the Chatham Islands.