Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 30, 2017 5:21:52 GMT 12
Hawkes Bay Today 30/1/17
DRUG PROFITS
Mr Timu. How about suggesting that the gangs dip into the millions they are making from drug trafficking, to pay for helping drug users "kick the P habit" and spare the taxpayer for a change? After all the Waka Moemoea Trust was only granted about a million dollars for this worthy cause in 2004/5. But then the Waitangi Tribunal has recommended claims of less merit.
BRYAN JOHNSON
Omokoroa
Wanganui Chronicle 30/1/17
MAORI LANGUAGE
In reply to Potonga Neilson's nonsensical diatribe about how Maori were being ethnically cleansed by having their language banned from being spoken in schools, it was at the request of the Maori parents that their children only speak English in schools, as they themselves could see that this was the way of the future. Therefore, his claim that ethnic cleansing was government policy in those days is pure mischief.
With several petitions by Maori to place greater emphasis on how important this was to them, their wish was granted to them by the government.
I am also quite amused by the last sentence of Potonga: "... much preferable to the mythical Heaven or Hell that Pakeha rave on about." I believe that the surname Neilson is Scandinavian, and I have a feeling that he may have as much as, if not more than the accursed pakeha blood in his veins as he does of his Maori heritage. As a regular critic of all things Pakeha, perhaps he could enlighten us.
ROBIN BISHOP
Tauranga
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DRUG PROFITS
Mr Timu. How about suggesting that the gangs dip into the millions they are making from drug trafficking, to pay for helping drug users "kick the P habit" and spare the taxpayer for a change? After all the Waka Moemoea Trust was only granted about a million dollars for this worthy cause in 2004/5. But then the Waitangi Tribunal has recommended claims of less merit.
BRYAN JOHNSON
Omokoroa
Wanganui Chronicle 30/1/17
MAORI LANGUAGE
In reply to Potonga Neilson's nonsensical diatribe about how Maori were being ethnically cleansed by having their language banned from being spoken in schools, it was at the request of the Maori parents that their children only speak English in schools, as they themselves could see that this was the way of the future. Therefore, his claim that ethnic cleansing was government policy in those days is pure mischief.
With several petitions by Maori to place greater emphasis on how important this was to them, their wish was granted to them by the government.
I am also quite amused by the last sentence of Potonga: "... much preferable to the mythical Heaven or Hell that Pakeha rave on about." I believe that the surname Neilson is Scandinavian, and I have a feeling that he may have as much as, if not more than the accursed pakeha blood in his veins as he does of his Maori heritage. As a regular critic of all things Pakeha, perhaps he could enlighten us.
ROBIN BISHOP
Tauranga
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers