| They displayed a dangerous and disgraceful spirit of favouritism for the felonry. |
| Britain's colonial policy was shaped by a desire to limit the evil effects of the felonry on Maori. |
| It degraded the whole of colonial society, both felonry and free. |
| Britain's colonial policy, which resulted in the annexation of NZ in 1840, was also shaped by a desire to limit the evil effects of the felonry on Maori. |
| Historians paid considerable attention to the circumstances that created this unwanted felonry. |
| Mudie, The Felonry of New South Wales, Melbourne, 1964, pp. |
