That’s completely wrong, Woodman. New Zealand began as part of NSW and was completely ungoverned for the first 50 years of its existence as a British territory. There were no penal colonies or British military presence at all, just communities of whalers and other sailors. It was not until 1832 that the British government had any presence on the islands and not until the 1850s that there was any permanent military presence. Organized colonial activity began with the New Zealand Company and 9000 paying colonists who freely emigrated, and founded four free colonies starting in 1842. Penal transportation was abolished in 1868, had not been used on a mass scale since 1850 and was never a part of NZ life.
Oh dear, 60 seconds of Googling may have stopped you making a fool of yourself