Chief Justice Sir James

the tribe gifted the church some land but only if they would build a church but a church was never built, So the tribe wanted the land back but the judge would not give them the land back because the tribe had already given the church the land. The judge had called the treaty of waitangi 'worthless'

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/the-chief-justice-declares-that-the-treaty-of-waitangi-is-worthless-and-a-simple-nullity