Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 12, 2016 5:33:59 GMT 12
Bay of Plenty Times 12/10/16
CHIEFS KNEW
Your correspondent, Glenys Daley (Letters, October 4) in my view does not need the words of Don Brash, The Treaty of Waitangi or Hobson, who drafted it, to understand what it was about.
She just needs to read the words of the Maori chiefs who signed it to know that they fully understood the concept of the Queen’s sovereignty over them.
The Maori of the time became British subjects, hence Hobson’s statement: “He iwi tahi tatou.” This was a massive gift to them.
This understanding was repeated by the chiefs at the 1860 Kohimarama conference 20 years later as evidenced by their statements then.
In my opinion all this was, of course, before the revisionist history that Daley believes in and so beloved of separatists.
G F
Tauranga
The Press 12/10/16
NO SYSTEMIC RACISM IN NZ
Systemic racism is not alive and well in New Zealand (Oct 10).
If it were, we would have arranged marriages, honour killings and a caste or class system. These would force the breeding generation to take advantage of the perceived benefits of belonging to one race or another.
Individually we may admire or despise one culture or another but as a society we allow the widest possible definition of the label ‘‘Maori’’.
We are content to see an ever increasing number of New Zealanders identify with that label and share in the benefits of that definition.
Some may think it is unfair that people with 1/32 of Maori blood may claim educational and financial advantages from the rest.
But our society accepts it in the knowledge that eventually, say five generations down the track, 100 per cent of New Zealanders will be on the gravy train.
C N
Linwood
NZ Herald 12/10/16
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
The last time former prime minister Geoffrey Palmer created havoc was when he introduced the Treaty of Waitangi Act. We can only imagine what he has in mind with this Constitution Act based on the Treaty of Waitangi, which he is not promoting publicly. Why not? Now is the time to stop an undemocratic slide into New Zealand-style apartheid and join Hobson’s Pledge.
All New Zealanders must be equal, regardless of ancestry or ethnicity. There can be no co-governance on a “partnership” basis. We must cease racebased privilege and claimed “principles”, cease separate Maori representation on any governance bodies whether at central government or local government level, prevent Maori-only water interest.
In short, New Zealand is a democracy for all New Zealanders equally and we do not need a constitution with the massive separatism and cost resulting from the Treaty of Waitangi Act.
J H,
Tauranga.
CHIEFS KNEW
Your correspondent, Glenys Daley (Letters, October 4) in my view does not need the words of Don Brash, The Treaty of Waitangi or Hobson, who drafted it, to understand what it was about.
She just needs to read the words of the Maori chiefs who signed it to know that they fully understood the concept of the Queen’s sovereignty over them.
The Maori of the time became British subjects, hence Hobson’s statement: “He iwi tahi tatou.” This was a massive gift to them.
This understanding was repeated by the chiefs at the 1860 Kohimarama conference 20 years later as evidenced by their statements then.
In my opinion all this was, of course, before the revisionist history that Daley believes in and so beloved of separatists.
G F
Tauranga
The Press 12/10/16
NO SYSTEMIC RACISM IN NZ
Systemic racism is not alive and well in New Zealand (Oct 10).
If it were, we would have arranged marriages, honour killings and a caste or class system. These would force the breeding generation to take advantage of the perceived benefits of belonging to one race or another.
Individually we may admire or despise one culture or another but as a society we allow the widest possible definition of the label ‘‘Maori’’.
We are content to see an ever increasing number of New Zealanders identify with that label and share in the benefits of that definition.
Some may think it is unfair that people with 1/32 of Maori blood may claim educational and financial advantages from the rest.
But our society accepts it in the knowledge that eventually, say five generations down the track, 100 per cent of New Zealanders will be on the gravy train.
C N
Linwood
NZ Herald 12/10/16
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
The last time former prime minister Geoffrey Palmer created havoc was when he introduced the Treaty of Waitangi Act. We can only imagine what he has in mind with this Constitution Act based on the Treaty of Waitangi, which he is not promoting publicly. Why not? Now is the time to stop an undemocratic slide into New Zealand-style apartheid and join Hobson’s Pledge.
All New Zealanders must be equal, regardless of ancestry or ethnicity. There can be no co-governance on a “partnership” basis. We must cease racebased privilege and claimed “principles”, cease separate Maori representation on any governance bodies whether at central government or local government level, prevent Maori-only water interest.
In short, New Zealand is a democracy for all New Zealanders equally and we do not need a constitution with the massive separatism and cost resulting from the Treaty of Waitangi Act.
J H,
Tauranga.