What year and where did this incident happen? 1939

Compare box one to box two. What is the difference in understanding of land ownership? That the European settlers are pouring into New Zealand

Why was Wakefield surveying the Wairau plains? Faced with a shortage of land in the Nelson colony,

The New Zealand Company under Arthur Wakefield was keen to acquire additional land.

They traveled to Nelson and made it plain to Wakefield that they retained title to the Wairau Plain

and did not intend to sell unless they were offered a generous price.

What is the offence that Te Raupraha and Te Tangihaeata are to be arrested for?

This argument was a thin one: how Te Rauparaha had acquired the land was irrelevant if he had not included it in the sale to the company. Nevertheless, a decision was made to arrest Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata on charges of arson.

In your own words, summarise the events at Wairau that led to the deaths of 30 people in total. 

Four Māori and 22 Europeans were killed in the first violent clash between Māori and Pākehā since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. Nelson colonists were keen to occupy the Wairau Valley, where the New Zealand Company claimed to have purchased land. Ngāti Toa disagreed, obstructing surveyors and destroying their huts. The chief Te Rauparaha insisted on an investigation by William Spain, who was looking into pre-1840 land purchases. Instead, warrants were issued for the arrest of Te Rauparaha and his nephew Te Rangihaeata, and an armed but untrained posse set out from Nelson to detain them.