<P> In 1877, the English language rough draft of the Treaty was published along with photolithographic facsimiles, and the originals were returned to storage . In 1908, historian and bibliographer Dr Thomas Hocken, searching for historical documents, found the Treaty papers in poor condition, damaged at the edges by water and partly eaten by rodents . The papers were restored by the Dominion Museum in 1913 and kept in special boxes from then on . In February 1940, the Treaty documents were taken to Waitangi for display in the Treaty House during the Centenary celebrations . It was possibly the first time the Treaty document had been on public display since it was signed . After the outbreak of war with Japan, they were placed with other state documents in an outsize luggage trunk and deposited for secure custody with the Public Trustee at Palmerston North by the local MP, who did not tell staff what was in the case . However, as the case was too large to fit in the safe, the Treaty documents spent the war at the side of a back corridor in the Public Trust office . </P> <P> In 1956, the Department of Internal Affairs placed the Treaty documents in the care of the Alexander Turnbull Library and they were displayed in 1961 . Further preservation steps were taken in 1966, with improvements to the display conditions . From 1977 to 1980, the library extensively restored the documents before the Treaty was deposited in the Reserve Bank . </P> <P> In anticipation of a decision to exhibit the document in 1990 (the sesquicentennial of the signing), full documentation and reproduction photography was carried out . Several years of planning culminated with the opening of the climate - controlled Constitution Room at the National Archives by Mike Moore, Prime Minister of New Zealand, in November 1990 . It was announced in 2012 that the nine Treaty of Waitangi sheets would be relocated to the National Library of New Zealand in 2013 . </P> <P> HER MAJESTY VICTORIA Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland regarding with Her Royal Favor the Native Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and anxious to protect their just Rights and Property and to secure to them the enjoyment of Peace and Good Order has deemed it necessary in consequence of the great number of Her Majesty's Subjects who have already settled in New Zealand and the rapid extension of Emigration both from Europe and Australia which is still in progress to constitute and appoint a functionary properly authorised to treat with the Aborigines of New Zealand for the recognition of Her Majesty's Sovereign authority over the whole or any part of those islands--Her Majesty therefore being desirous to establish a settled form of Civil Government with a view to avert the evil consequences which must result from the absence of the necessary Laws and Institutions alike to the native population and to Her subjects has been graciously pleased to empower and to authorise me William Hobson a Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy Consul and Lieutenant - Governor of such parts of New Zealand as may be or hereafter shall be ceded to her Majesty to invite the confederated and independent Chiefs of New Zealand to concur in the following Articles and Conditions . </P>

Where is the original copy of the treaty of waitangi held