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Bay of Plenty Times 15/12/16
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Bryan Johnson (Letters, December 14) questions the Key Government’s support for a Land Wars commemoration and its impact on race relations and whether it will continue under Bill English.
One thing that has me bemused and should be asked of the Government is why the demanded “Land Wars” commemoration is only, it seems, being discussed with and by iwi. Of the approximately 3000 who died in these wars, some 1000 were British soldiers and militia. It seems their descendants are not being consulted.
My forebears arrived in 1841 and some lost their lives in the Waikato and Taranaki wars. No one has approached me or my family.
Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell said he has secured $4 million over four years to support the commemorations, to be known as “Raa Maumahara National Day of Commemoration”. I have the unease this money will be used only by iwi for history revision and so to weave a new korowai of victimhood to improve their ideological interests and financial position.
If the public, and particularly the descendants of early settlers, are not involved and their views included, these socalled commemorations will become another day of ugliness and division.
R P
Tauranga
Northland Age 15/12/16
THE NEW BROOM
So our new prime minister is treading the same path that John Key trod towards exclusive, ethnic privilege and racial disharmony with his support for holding a memorial day to commemorate the so-called Land Wars.
This commemoration is a thinly disguised effort by the Tainui lwi to project: their profitable version of the conflict, perhaps in the hope of inducing Mr Finlayson to give away even more of the taxpayers' money.
Mr English has also found it pragmatically and politically propitious to reverse his moral stand on same sex marriage. "0 what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." - Walter Scott,1808.
B J
Omokoroa
Marlborough Express 14/12/16
CUSTOMARY FISHING
In my retirement I travel around in my small campervan most of the year. In my van I have gear to enhance my activities, such as fishing for food. This includes a small flounder net. I use this in coastal areas. I stop and usually manage to catch a flounder or two for a feed. Even caught four once, so also able to share with the local landowner who let me camp on his property.
In some areas of the Marlborough Sounds this netting is not allowed, to preserve stock. I strongly agree with this. Some ancestors of the local iwi are allowed to use long commercial type nets to catch fish in these areas for family occasions. Having found my great-grandfather came from Unst Island in the Shetlands my Viking blood stirs me to thinking I can go back to my island and put out hundreds of metres of net to get some fish for a special memorial visit event I intend to make soon.
B G
Blenheim
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Bryan Johnson (Letters, December 14) questions the Key Government’s support for a Land Wars commemoration and its impact on race relations and whether it will continue under Bill English.
One thing that has me bemused and should be asked of the Government is why the demanded “Land Wars” commemoration is only, it seems, being discussed with and by iwi. Of the approximately 3000 who died in these wars, some 1000 were British soldiers and militia. It seems their descendants are not being consulted.
My forebears arrived in 1841 and some lost their lives in the Waikato and Taranaki wars. No one has approached me or my family.
Maori Development Minister Te Ururoa Flavell said he has secured $4 million over four years to support the commemorations, to be known as “Raa Maumahara National Day of Commemoration”. I have the unease this money will be used only by iwi for history revision and so to weave a new korowai of victimhood to improve their ideological interests and financial position.
If the public, and particularly the descendants of early settlers, are not involved and their views included, these socalled commemorations will become another day of ugliness and division.
R P
Tauranga
Northland Age 15/12/16
THE NEW BROOM
So our new prime minister is treading the same path that John Key trod towards exclusive, ethnic privilege and racial disharmony with his support for holding a memorial day to commemorate the so-called Land Wars.
This commemoration is a thinly disguised effort by the Tainui lwi to project: their profitable version of the conflict, perhaps in the hope of inducing Mr Finlayson to give away even more of the taxpayers' money.
Mr English has also found it pragmatically and politically propitious to reverse his moral stand on same sex marriage. "0 what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive." - Walter Scott,1808.
B J
Omokoroa
Marlborough Express 14/12/16
CUSTOMARY FISHING
In my retirement I travel around in my small campervan most of the year. In my van I have gear to enhance my activities, such as fishing for food. This includes a small flounder net. I use this in coastal areas. I stop and usually manage to catch a flounder or two for a feed. Even caught four once, so also able to share with the local landowner who let me camp on his property.
In some areas of the Marlborough Sounds this netting is not allowed, to preserve stock. I strongly agree with this. Some ancestors of the local iwi are allowed to use long commercial type nets to catch fish in these areas for family occasions. Having found my great-grandfather came from Unst Island in the Shetlands my Viking blood stirs me to thinking I can go back to my island and put out hundreds of metres of net to get some fish for a special memorial visit event I intend to make soon.
B G
Blenheim