About 40 chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840. By the end of the year, about 500 other MÄori, including 13 women, had put their names or moko to the document; all but 39 signed the MÄori text.ollowing the meeting at Waitangi, the Treaty circulated around the country for MÄori to sign. Between February and September 1840, missionaries, traders and officials explained its terms at 50 or so signing meetings from the far north of the North Island to Ruapuke Island in Foveaux Strait.
da-mier, dam-i-er ] The baby boy name Damier is pronounced as DAEMiy-er â . The origin of Damier is the Slavonic language. Damier is a variation of the name Damir (Slavic). Damier is not widely used as a baby name for boys. It is not listed within the top 1000 names.
dam. barrier, commonly across a watercourse, to hold back water, often forming a reservoir or lake; dams are also sometimes used to control or contain rockslides, mudflows, and the like in regions where these are common. Dams are made of timber, rock, earth, masonry, or concrete or of combinations of these materials. special type of water-retaining structure is the sectional navigation dam. To erect such a dam, buttresses of steel beams are set up on a flat apron during the summer low-water period. Bridges are laid along the buttresses, and gates of simple design rest against the buttresses.