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1. New Zealand is not the only official name for the nation. The agreed upon official native name for the region is Aotearoa. The name New Zealand is from the Dutch Netherlanders (Dutch Expedition) from Abel Tasman who was lost in Polynesia and thought the area was South America connected to 'The Magellen Strait", trying to rename it after himself (Abel Tasman Passage). The British however supported the name New Zealand only because at that time the true history was not well known. A similar naming scenario happened in the United States where Spanish explorers thought they had landed in India and called the natives....Indians. The Strait of Magellan was rumored in Europe to be a navigational short-cut to Asia-China during the Spice trade and was highly sought by all Euro-trade merchants.
2. New Zealand never administered the nation of Western Samoa officially who at that time in the late 1890s-1920s could barely administer themselves. The Western Samoan government had both British and German relations but Imperial Britain by the end of World War 1 was severely weakend so NZ-Brit loyalists became a proxy for overseas British interests. New Zealand historians use the Treaty of Versailles 1919 as proof of administration under a League of Nations Class C Mandate. The mandates and other punitive measures in the Treaty led to the British-England being invaded by Germany in 1940 causing thousands of deaths. The USA also did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles and refused being a member of the League of Nations which was disbanded in 1946.
3. Most of the New Zealand History on Tonga is not historically accurate. A published work without political influence documenting Tonga in the 1800s remains the descriptive first-hand accounts of Mr. William Mariner who witnessed a Tongan internal entitlement War, not just for new entitlement, but to change the Monarch. The book can be found online today in 2016, "The Tonga Islands - Mariner". William Mariner (1791–1853) lived in Tonga from November 1806 to around 4-6 years who then published the book "The Tonga Isles".
4. During the World Wars the nation of New Zealand was not a military power. The nation was even over looked by the Japanese Navy in WW2 and were not important enough to attack. Bombing Pearl-Harbor in Hawaii 1941 and Australia at Darwin 1942 were the main concerns for the Japanese Air-force and Navy in the second World War. New Zealand at the time had no true Navy fleet only outdated wooden trade ships, merchant ships, converted vessels, or borrowed HMS British vessels. The weapons in New Zealand at that time were all imported. New Zealand manufactured no heavy arms or had an Air-force of any kind other than gifted second hand planes by British RAF and had low troops numbers in comparison to other military. British Navy were defeated by the Germans by World War 2 and NZ relied on USA military protection as did Australia (both nations still do today). NZ Parliament enacted RNZAF officially in 1937 but the nation was in a state of economic Depression. The best contribution to the World Wars were the elite Maori allied soldiers who were deployed to help defend against the pressures of a German Invasion of Britain.
5. The New Zealand Capitol was not originally in Wellington City. During the Maori Wars the Capitol of New Zealand was retreated twice. The Capitol was first set-up in Kororareka City, then Maori invaded Kororareka City. The Capitol was then moved to Auckland City and Auckland was invaded as well by their own Maori neighbors in the Gulf regions for good reason. At the end of the Maori Wars it was moved to Wellington City as a neutral location and not in the sole access of only Auckland. The NZ Capitol remains today in Wellington City.
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