Tama Muru joins Dan Busby on the history trail

In 1833 the British Government of the day appointed James Busby as the first Official British Resident, based here at Waitangi. His main duties were to 'protect well disposed settlers and traders, prevent outrages by Europeans against Māori and apprehend escaped convicts' but with no troops and no powers of arrest - local Māori nicknamed him the "man of war without guns.' Nowadays there's Dan Busby, who conducts tours around the Treaty Grounds and his whanau is linked to the James Busby of the 1830s.