Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 12, 2023 4:43:14 GMT 12
CALL TO SHIFT GUN TURRET ‘USED TO KILL OUR PEOPLE’ ON EVE OF WAIKATO INVASION ANNIVERSARY
A gunboat turret from the New Zealand Wars needs to be moved out of Mercer, says a hapū ahead of the 160th anniversary of the British invasion of Waikato on Wednesday.
“It’s an instrument of war,” Ngāti Naho Trust chief executive Haydn Solomon said of the turret from the gunboat Pioneer.
“It’s not appropriate to have it in the middle of a community where people’s tūpuna (ancestors) were directly affected by the war.”....
www.waikatotimes.co.nz/a/nz-news/350033218/call-to-shift-gun-turret-used-to-kill-our-people-on-eve-of-waikato-invasion-anniversary
A gunboat turret from the New Zealand Wars needs to be moved out of Mercer, says a hapū ahead of the 160th anniversary of the British invasion of Waikato on Wednesday.
“It’s an instrument of war,” Ngāti Naho Trust chief executive Haydn Solomon said of the turret from the gunboat Pioneer.
“It’s not appropriate to have it in the middle of a community where people’s tūpuna (ancestors) were directly affected by the war.”....
www.waikatotimes.co.nz/a/nz-news/350033218/call-to-shift-gun-turret-used-to-kill-our-people-on-eve-of-waikato-invasion-anniversary