Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 1, 2016 6:38:15 GMT 12
The New Zealand Herald 1/12/16
FIRST CONES, THEN BEACHES?
Your report on Auckland Council’s decision to close all of Auckland’s volcanic cones to motor vehicles makes me very sad. The proposal effectively blocks access for the thousands of people in the city and its environs who, like me at close to 80 years of age, are not sufficiently disabled to warrant a disability concession card but would be unable to walk the access roads — some of which, like that to the Maungarei / Mt Wellington summit are long and steep.
It is a wonderful thing to be able to drive up there with a picnic lunch on a fine breezy day or to share the sweeping views of the city, harbour and gulf with visitors from abroad. It can be an experience that lifts the spirit. But such small pleasures will be lost to us for ever.
One wonders what this council and its advisers have in store for us next. Denying access to Auckland’s beaches perhaps?
D R,
Stonefields.
Northland Age 1/12/16
ONE WAY FORWARD
As we view the political spectrum in this land of Aotearoa, it becomes increasingly obvious that Winston Peters and New Zealand First is the only way forward for us to become one people and one nation.
He is following in the footsteps of my great-great-great-uncle Northland MP John McCleod. He built the first railway in Auckland which ran from Riverhead to Kumeu on the Kaipara Harbour. He opened the first bath house at Parakai, built the town of Helensville, then moved north, building the railway at Kawakawa, which was used to carry coal, which was shipped to Auckland. He also discovered the lime seam south of Whangarei, which is still in operation today. None of which, as a Pakeha, I can go back and make any daim to.
Winston's stand on the latest RMA legislation deserves our deepest respect and backing because as he has foreseen, this government is hell-bent on dividing our people along racial lines. When the true fact of the matter is we all descended from tribes in North Africa. DNA science has proved this.
We all arrived out here on a waka making us all immigrants to this land. Your indigenous peoples goes out the window, because the only true indigenous people on the planet are those tribes still living in North Africa from which we all descended.
Winston is the most experienced man there, once being deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and then Minister of Foreign Affairs. This country needs to unite as one, as the Treaty of Waitangi states, and as the chiefs who signed it intended it to be.
Whether you are black, white, red, brown or yellow, in this land, the true fact is you are North African. We just had a Maori Governor-General, about time for a Maori Prime Minister.
May God bless us alL
K C
Parapara
INFORMED OPINION
I have just received an unsolicited letter from a retired gentleman, a kaumatua of the Tainui tribe, who spent time working in the district court and NZ police.
He wrote: "My view is that it's a no-win situation as long as we have the Chief Judge of the Maori Land Court as chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal and the Crown Attorney-General (both Parliamentary appointments) holding hands . . . I am of the view that the Waitangi Tribunal should be reviewed, abolish the Maori Land (dare I say it `Apartheid) Court . . . and that all applications be heard at the High Court (the one court for all New Zealanders.)
B J
Omokoroa
Bay of Plenty Times 1/12/16
POOR RETURNS
Your correspondent Buddy Mikaere (Letters, November 25) tells us that many Maori and Pacifica people inhabit the areas of social disadvantage.
I am sure this is true and of other ethnicities as well. There are many social structures and funding to address this problem but the individuals themselves need to be motivated and willing to make that change for the betterment of their own lives.
A horse can be led to water but it cannot be made to drink.
Many of these people may be economically disadvantaged but are time rich.
As an example we often hear cries that the Maori language is in decline but language is learned by most persons in the home and family environment and requires little resources yet it has been reported that more than $300 million a year is spent on te reo for diminishing returns.
The only conclusion to be drawn from this is Maori do not want to save the language or would rather others do it for them.
If Mr Mikaere knows of motivated persons who are willing to take up the opportunities available in many fields and are prepared to see them through yet for some reason are unable to do so I am quite sure that can be rectified. The question is how many want to.
Is it a hand up that is sought or a hand out.
G F
Tauranga
FIRST CONES, THEN BEACHES?
Your report on Auckland Council’s decision to close all of Auckland’s volcanic cones to motor vehicles makes me very sad. The proposal effectively blocks access for the thousands of people in the city and its environs who, like me at close to 80 years of age, are not sufficiently disabled to warrant a disability concession card but would be unable to walk the access roads — some of which, like that to the Maungarei / Mt Wellington summit are long and steep.
It is a wonderful thing to be able to drive up there with a picnic lunch on a fine breezy day or to share the sweeping views of the city, harbour and gulf with visitors from abroad. It can be an experience that lifts the spirit. But such small pleasures will be lost to us for ever.
One wonders what this council and its advisers have in store for us next. Denying access to Auckland’s beaches perhaps?
D R,
Stonefields.
Northland Age 1/12/16
ONE WAY FORWARD
As we view the political spectrum in this land of Aotearoa, it becomes increasingly obvious that Winston Peters and New Zealand First is the only way forward for us to become one people and one nation.
He is following in the footsteps of my great-great-great-uncle Northland MP John McCleod. He built the first railway in Auckland which ran from Riverhead to Kumeu on the Kaipara Harbour. He opened the first bath house at Parakai, built the town of Helensville, then moved north, building the railway at Kawakawa, which was used to carry coal, which was shipped to Auckland. He also discovered the lime seam south of Whangarei, which is still in operation today. None of which, as a Pakeha, I can go back and make any daim to.
Winston's stand on the latest RMA legislation deserves our deepest respect and backing because as he has foreseen, this government is hell-bent on dividing our people along racial lines. When the true fact of the matter is we all descended from tribes in North Africa. DNA science has proved this.
We all arrived out here on a waka making us all immigrants to this land. Your indigenous peoples goes out the window, because the only true indigenous people on the planet are those tribes still living in North Africa from which we all descended.
Winston is the most experienced man there, once being deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and then Minister of Foreign Affairs. This country needs to unite as one, as the Treaty of Waitangi states, and as the chiefs who signed it intended it to be.
Whether you are black, white, red, brown or yellow, in this land, the true fact is you are North African. We just had a Maori Governor-General, about time for a Maori Prime Minister.
May God bless us alL
K C
Parapara
INFORMED OPINION
I have just received an unsolicited letter from a retired gentleman, a kaumatua of the Tainui tribe, who spent time working in the district court and NZ police.
He wrote: "My view is that it's a no-win situation as long as we have the Chief Judge of the Maori Land Court as chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal and the Crown Attorney-General (both Parliamentary appointments) holding hands . . . I am of the view that the Waitangi Tribunal should be reviewed, abolish the Maori Land (dare I say it `Apartheid) Court . . . and that all applications be heard at the High Court (the one court for all New Zealanders.)
B J
Omokoroa
Bay of Plenty Times 1/12/16
POOR RETURNS
Your correspondent Buddy Mikaere (Letters, November 25) tells us that many Maori and Pacifica people inhabit the areas of social disadvantage.
I am sure this is true and of other ethnicities as well. There are many social structures and funding to address this problem but the individuals themselves need to be motivated and willing to make that change for the betterment of their own lives.
A horse can be led to water but it cannot be made to drink.
Many of these people may be economically disadvantaged but are time rich.
As an example we often hear cries that the Maori language is in decline but language is learned by most persons in the home and family environment and requires little resources yet it has been reported that more than $300 million a year is spent on te reo for diminishing returns.
The only conclusion to be drawn from this is Maori do not want to save the language or would rather others do it for them.
If Mr Mikaere knows of motivated persons who are willing to take up the opportunities available in many fields and are prepared to see them through yet for some reason are unable to do so I am quite sure that can be rectified. The question is how many want to.
Is it a hand up that is sought or a hand out.
G F
Tauranga