Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 23, 2016 13:13:03 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Dominion Post 16/10/16)
In reply to your correspondent Tehuia Bill Hamilton and his assertion that 92% of land was stolen from Maori - perhaps he is not aware of the true facts of the situation?
Our country has approximately 66 million acres and land confiscated from Maori was about 3 million acres - but by 1873 almost a third had been given back to them.
Since then much more has been returned and the small amount confiscated has been more than paid for in multi-million dollar treaty settlements.
The truth is that land-owner Maori sold their land, with great gusto, often several times over, and these are recorded in Turton's Deeds, posted for anyone to access, on the Victoria University website.
R. B
Tauranga
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Sunday Star Times 11/10/16)
I thought the photo of Moana Maniapoto as The Face in your Sunday
edition was stunning. On reading the article about her I was
disappointed to note that she only lists her tribal affiliations.
A few years ago I was doing some online family history and came across
her name on a website of descendents of William the Conqueror. Being
curious I followed it back through her British ancestry and was very
impressed by the extremely aristocratic line from which she is
descended, which includes viscounts, earls, barons, and early English
royalty.
She is a product of the best of Maori and European heritage and I hope
she will in future acknowledge exactly who she is.
R. B
Tauranga
Dear Editor, (Sent to the NZ Listener 9/10/16)
Shame on Bill Ralston for equating Don Brash and "Hobson's Pledge"with the Ku Klux Klan.
Brash wants equal rights for all races. The Ku Klux Klan do not - just like the Maori Party.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
In reply to your correspondent Tehuia Bill Hamilton and his assertion that 92% of land was stolen from Maori - perhaps he is not aware of the true facts of the situation?
Our country has approximately 66 million acres and land confiscated from Maori was about 3 million acres - but by 1873 almost a third had been given back to them.
Since then much more has been returned and the small amount confiscated has been more than paid for in multi-million dollar treaty settlements.
The truth is that land-owner Maori sold their land, with great gusto, often several times over, and these are recorded in Turton's Deeds, posted for anyone to access, on the Victoria University website.
R. B
Tauranga
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Sunday Star Times 11/10/16)
I thought the photo of Moana Maniapoto as The Face in your Sunday
edition was stunning. On reading the article about her I was
disappointed to note that she only lists her tribal affiliations.
A few years ago I was doing some online family history and came across
her name on a website of descendents of William the Conqueror. Being
curious I followed it back through her British ancestry and was very
impressed by the extremely aristocratic line from which she is
descended, which includes viscounts, earls, barons, and early English
royalty.
She is a product of the best of Maori and European heritage and I hope
she will in future acknowledge exactly who she is.
R. B
Tauranga
Dear Editor, (Sent to the NZ Listener 9/10/16)
Shame on Bill Ralston for equating Don Brash and "Hobson's Pledge"with the Ku Klux Klan.
Brash wants equal rights for all races. The Ku Klux Klan do not - just like the Maori Party.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson