Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 24, 2017 6:40:37 GMT 12
Bay of Plenty Times 24/1/17
TE TII MARAE
I am unsure why Te Tii Marae considers itself to be of such national importance when Te Tiriti o Waitangi was actually signed over the bridge at Waitangi on the big lawn in front of the Treaty House, which is the location of official ceremonies.
A Ngapuhi kaumatua, David Rankin, who is a direct descendant of an original signatory chief, claims the marae committee insulted New Zealand’s head of state by banning him from speaking on the marae.
Hundreds of thousands of New Zealand citizens hope that Bill English will uphold his comments to the Centre for Public Law in Wellington 2002, that “unless New Zealanders accept Te Tiriti o Waitangi at something much closer to its face value, we could destroy something unique”.
“Uncontested assertions, such as the inevitability of political control of everyone by Maori, is shaping government policy, judicial thinking and political debate,” he warned.
MAUREEN J ANDERSON
Pyes Pa
The New Zealand Herald 24/1/17
TRY 14TH CENTURY
Wildly varying assertions of the earliest dates of Maori and European settlement annoy me. In a recent RNZ interview, a visiting British geneticist confessed ignorance but said, “The Maori arrived when, in the 10th or 11th century?” RNZ interviewer: “I wouldn’t know, sounds about right.”
The earliest verified date is 1320, recently again confirmed by the Wairau Bar studies. That was 322 years before Tasman, 449 before Cook, and only 494 years before the Hansen family arrived to settle in the Bay of Islands in 1814. The Hansens are regarded as the first European settlers, rather than the transient sealers, whalers and missionaries before them.
BRUCE KERNOHAN,
Dargaville.
TE TII MARAE
I am unsure why Te Tii Marae considers itself to be of such national importance when Te Tiriti o Waitangi was actually signed over the bridge at Waitangi on the big lawn in front of the Treaty House, which is the location of official ceremonies.
A Ngapuhi kaumatua, David Rankin, who is a direct descendant of an original signatory chief, claims the marae committee insulted New Zealand’s head of state by banning him from speaking on the marae.
Hundreds of thousands of New Zealand citizens hope that Bill English will uphold his comments to the Centre for Public Law in Wellington 2002, that “unless New Zealanders accept Te Tiriti o Waitangi at something much closer to its face value, we could destroy something unique”.
“Uncontested assertions, such as the inevitability of political control of everyone by Maori, is shaping government policy, judicial thinking and political debate,” he warned.
MAUREEN J ANDERSON
Pyes Pa
The New Zealand Herald 24/1/17
TRY 14TH CENTURY
Wildly varying assertions of the earliest dates of Maori and European settlement annoy me. In a recent RNZ interview, a visiting British geneticist confessed ignorance but said, “The Maori arrived when, in the 10th or 11th century?” RNZ interviewer: “I wouldn’t know, sounds about right.”
The earliest verified date is 1320, recently again confirmed by the Wairau Bar studies. That was 322 years before Tasman, 449 before Cook, and only 494 years before the Hansen family arrived to settle in the Bay of Islands in 1814. The Hansens are regarded as the first European settlers, rather than the transient sealers, whalers and missionaries before them.
BRUCE KERNOHAN,
Dargaville.