Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 4, 2022 8:24:25 GMT 12
SO TRUE
P H writes > The old names spoke far more directly to Hamilton’s unique history.
There WAS no Hamilton until the soldiers and white settlers arrived and built it.
Tainui —who never signed the TOW in the first place — picked a scrap with the Governor by setting up a rival ‘King’ to challenge Queen Victoria’s sovereignty.
Governor Grey warned Tainui repeatedly that if they didn’t stand down and cease their provocations, the Crown would enter the Waikato, put down Tainui by force of arms, and take land from tbe Kingites as punishment for their insolence.
Tainui kept bringing it.
It got brung.
Tainui lost.
Land was confiscated as the Crown had warned in advance.
The settlers built a town that became a city.
So they get to name their town whatever they want. They get to call its streets what they want. They get to erect statues and monuments as they see fit.
For the part-descendants of the losers to presume—more than 150 years later—to disturb this arrangement is:
(1) an arrogant, unwanted assertion of ‘ownership,’
and
(2) a complete denigration of the efforts of the settler in building a thriving modern metropolis where nothing but ti tree, flax, and raupo was growing when they showed up.
P H writes > The old names spoke far more directly to Hamilton’s unique history.
There WAS no Hamilton until the soldiers and white settlers arrived and built it.
Tainui —who never signed the TOW in the first place — picked a scrap with the Governor by setting up a rival ‘King’ to challenge Queen Victoria’s sovereignty.
Governor Grey warned Tainui repeatedly that if they didn’t stand down and cease their provocations, the Crown would enter the Waikato, put down Tainui by force of arms, and take land from tbe Kingites as punishment for their insolence.
Tainui kept bringing it.
It got brung.
Tainui lost.
Land was confiscated as the Crown had warned in advance.
The settlers built a town that became a city.
So they get to name their town whatever they want. They get to call its streets what they want. They get to erect statues and monuments as they see fit.
For the part-descendants of the losers to presume—more than 150 years later—to disturb this arrangement is:
(1) an arrogant, unwanted assertion of ‘ownership,’
and
(2) a complete denigration of the efforts of the settler in building a thriving modern metropolis where nothing but ti tree, flax, and raupo was growing when they showed up.