Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 25, 2018 5:57:37 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Wanganui Chronicle 20/3/18)
Yet again (20/3/18) Potonga produces a deluded view of history with a false claim that Bob Jones and Don Brash write racist propaganda when they state that Maori were saved from self-annihilation by the arrival of Europeans in colonial times.
Chief Taipari of the Bay of Plenty said exactly the same thing while at the 1940 opening of the meeting house at Waitangi, statesman Sir Apirana Ngata, said “but for the sovereignty handed over to her majesty and her descendants I doubt that there would be a free Maori race in New Zealand today”.
More than 30,000 Maoris were killed and eaten by other Maoris in a few decades before 1840, about 1200 when the Waikato tribes captured the Te Ati Awa pa Pukerangiora in 1831 while more that 2000 met the same fate in 1821 when Ngapuhi captured Mauinaina pa at Tamaki.
There were less deaths in all the tribal rebellions of colonial times. Who were Potonga’s real savages? The answer is obvious.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post 20/3/18)
Tommy Wilson may have great admiration for Vincent O'Malley and Jock Phillips ('Times', 19/3/18) but all three write fake history in claiming that a church full of women and children was burnt to the ground by troops at Rangiaowhia.
Let them identify the blackened bones of the supposed victims if they can.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
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Yet again (20/3/18) Potonga produces a deluded view of history with a false claim that Bob Jones and Don Brash write racist propaganda when they state that Maori were saved from self-annihilation by the arrival of Europeans in colonial times.
Chief Taipari of the Bay of Plenty said exactly the same thing while at the 1940 opening of the meeting house at Waitangi, statesman Sir Apirana Ngata, said “but for the sovereignty handed over to her majesty and her descendants I doubt that there would be a free Maori race in New Zealand today”.
More than 30,000 Maoris were killed and eaten by other Maoris in a few decades before 1840, about 1200 when the Waikato tribes captured the Te Ati Awa pa Pukerangiora in 1831 while more that 2000 met the same fate in 1821 when Ngapuhi captured Mauinaina pa at Tamaki.
There were less deaths in all the tribal rebellions of colonial times. Who were Potonga’s real savages? The answer is obvious.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post 20/3/18)
Tommy Wilson may have great admiration for Vincent O'Malley and Jock Phillips ('Times', 19/3/18) but all three write fake history in claiming that a church full of women and children was burnt to the ground by troops at Rangiaowhia.
Let them identify the blackened bones of the supposed victims if they can.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters