Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 21, 2018 5:51:47 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the NZ Listener 8/1/18)
Radio NZ Has a sense of humour
Recently RNZ has started Te Reo lessons. On the 5th of January I listened to Mihi Forbes discussing with Alex Perrottet “how to have a cup of tea”. Over about four minutes they effectively proved Don Brash’s case. The vast majority of the words used (tea, coffee, sugar, teaspoon etc) were made up, but given a Maori accent.
I look forward to future lessons on traditional Maori matters. Maybe the next one could be named, “how to give the Fergie a valve grind”
www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/summerreport/audio/2018627966/having-a-te-reo-cup-of-tea
MURRAY REID, Tuakau
Dear Editor, (Sent to the NZ Herald 2/1/18)
Robin Osborne (Euthanasia bill misunderstood – 2/1/18) wonders if MPs ever read the bills before parliament before arguing their positions. Having read the 2011 bill and listened to the government’s manoeuvrings over iwi’s claims to our coastline, I’d conclude that either they don’t or they simply lie.
Past PM John Key said there’d only ever be a handful of claims to our coast and his Attorney General called the concerned ‘clowns’. The media went along with their line. Well, six years later and those clowns have been proven to have had a case. In 2017, 600 claims were lodged, covering every centimetre of NZ’s coast. These claims affect all catchments, harbours, seabed and water columns. Now that the truth is out, it would be helpful if the media actually reported these facts so people enjoying the coast this summer could do something about protecting their rights when these claims are heard.
Or are lies, secrecy and suppression of the truth the real facts of life here in Godzone?
FIONA MACKENZIE, Whangaparaoa
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
Radio NZ Has a sense of humour
Recently RNZ has started Te Reo lessons. On the 5th of January I listened to Mihi Forbes discussing with Alex Perrottet “how to have a cup of tea”. Over about four minutes they effectively proved Don Brash’s case. The vast majority of the words used (tea, coffee, sugar, teaspoon etc) were made up, but given a Maori accent.
I look forward to future lessons on traditional Maori matters. Maybe the next one could be named, “how to give the Fergie a valve grind”
www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/summerreport/audio/2018627966/having-a-te-reo-cup-of-tea
MURRAY REID, Tuakau
Dear Editor, (Sent to the NZ Herald 2/1/18)
Robin Osborne (Euthanasia bill misunderstood – 2/1/18) wonders if MPs ever read the bills before parliament before arguing their positions. Having read the 2011 bill and listened to the government’s manoeuvrings over iwi’s claims to our coastline, I’d conclude that either they don’t or they simply lie.
Past PM John Key said there’d only ever be a handful of claims to our coast and his Attorney General called the concerned ‘clowns’. The media went along with their line. Well, six years later and those clowns have been proven to have had a case. In 2017, 600 claims were lodged, covering every centimetre of NZ’s coast. These claims affect all catchments, harbours, seabed and water columns. Now that the truth is out, it would be helpful if the media actually reported these facts so people enjoying the coast this summer could do something about protecting their rights when these claims are heard.
Or are lies, secrecy and suppression of the truth the real facts of life here in Godzone?
FIONA MACKENZIE, Whangaparaoa
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters