Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 25, 2017 5:29:14 GMT 12
The Dominion Post 25/1/17
REMEMBER COLONISTS
You claim in your January 23 editorial that we should move Wellington Anniversary holiday to the middle of winter because ‘‘by then, we are cold and sick of everything’’.
Well, I’m not; I celebrate the winter solstice and its recognition of the cyclical nature of our world. What I am sick of is your perpetual negativity towards, for example, our marvellous colonial heritage.
Good things come to those who wait. The Arab Spring morphed into our winter of discontent and in 2016 we had our own spring in which nationalism and patriotism were reborn. So let us dispense with Wellington Anniversary and Waitangi Day too and have a holiday on June 21 to celebrate our wonderful country. And let us name it after the stoic colonists who brought about the birth of our nation in 1840.
On that day let us give thanks for the benefits we now reap from the nation the colonists founded and the infrastructure they and the Maori built by their own hands in conditions we would now find unacceptable.
And let us dispense also with the insulting attitude the mainstream media, including The Dominion Post, have towards the colonists and by extension their descendants.
BARRIE DAVIS
Island Bay
Waikato Times 25/1/17
TREATY MATTERS
In support of Bryan Johnson on Treaty matters, what should be added to that letter, is that the Crown and the English/ British government should also be responsible for the cost of all Treaty settlements and expenses, not the New Zealand taxpayer.
ARTHUR KANE
Hamilton
The New Zealand Herald 25/1/17
CLOSING CONES TO CARS
I agree with Ken Graham: closing off vehicle access to the summits of all of Auckland’s maunga is a disgrace. Most Aucklanders will not be aware that ownership of the beloved and admired hilltop parks in the city has now passed to Maori as part of treaty settlements, and managed under “co-governance” with the Auckland Council.
To quote from the Maunga Authority website: “The Tupuna Maunga Values and Integrated Management Plan (IMP) sets out a compelling vision for the future management of the maunga that reflects the mana whenua worldview. Understanding the Tupuna Maunga as Taonga Tuku Iho (treasures handed down the generations) encourages a sense of reverence and aroha towards these places.”
This indicates the maunga are being administered only from a Maori viewpoint [but] they are treasures for all the residents of the city, not just Maori.
One of the reasons offered for banning vehicles is pedestrian safety, yet the Auckland Council has created shared access zones for pedestrians and vehicles in Fort St and Elliott St. Why the problem? We need wider public consultation on this issue and a reconsideration of the decision of the Authority.
LEIGH MARSHALL,
Remuera.
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
REMEMBER COLONISTS
You claim in your January 23 editorial that we should move Wellington Anniversary holiday to the middle of winter because ‘‘by then, we are cold and sick of everything’’.
Well, I’m not; I celebrate the winter solstice and its recognition of the cyclical nature of our world. What I am sick of is your perpetual negativity towards, for example, our marvellous colonial heritage.
Good things come to those who wait. The Arab Spring morphed into our winter of discontent and in 2016 we had our own spring in which nationalism and patriotism were reborn. So let us dispense with Wellington Anniversary and Waitangi Day too and have a holiday on June 21 to celebrate our wonderful country. And let us name it after the stoic colonists who brought about the birth of our nation in 1840.
On that day let us give thanks for the benefits we now reap from the nation the colonists founded and the infrastructure they and the Maori built by their own hands in conditions we would now find unacceptable.
And let us dispense also with the insulting attitude the mainstream media, including The Dominion Post, have towards the colonists and by extension their descendants.
BARRIE DAVIS
Island Bay
Waikato Times 25/1/17
TREATY MATTERS
In support of Bryan Johnson on Treaty matters, what should be added to that letter, is that the Crown and the English/ British government should also be responsible for the cost of all Treaty settlements and expenses, not the New Zealand taxpayer.
ARTHUR KANE
Hamilton
The New Zealand Herald 25/1/17
CLOSING CONES TO CARS
I agree with Ken Graham: closing off vehicle access to the summits of all of Auckland’s maunga is a disgrace. Most Aucklanders will not be aware that ownership of the beloved and admired hilltop parks in the city has now passed to Maori as part of treaty settlements, and managed under “co-governance” with the Auckland Council.
To quote from the Maunga Authority website: “The Tupuna Maunga Values and Integrated Management Plan (IMP) sets out a compelling vision for the future management of the maunga that reflects the mana whenua worldview. Understanding the Tupuna Maunga as Taonga Tuku Iho (treasures handed down the generations) encourages a sense of reverence and aroha towards these places.”
This indicates the maunga are being administered only from a Maori viewpoint [but] they are treasures for all the residents of the city, not just Maori.
One of the reasons offered for banning vehicles is pedestrian safety, yet the Auckland Council has created shared access zones for pedestrians and vehicles in Fort St and Elliott St. Why the problem? We need wider public consultation on this issue and a reconsideration of the decision of the Authority.
LEIGH MARSHALL,
Remuera.
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers