Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 20, 2018 6:07:24 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Northland Age 6/5/18)
Shortage of Kumara workers.
Growers report this is the worst season ever for getting workers to harvest the crop.
There are about 100000 16 to 24 year olds in New Zealand who have nothing to do. They are not in work, education or training.
My guess is the Kumara growing area of Northland has more than its fair share of such people.
While some will have genuine reasons for choosing to lie in each morning I suspect that many just have no inclination to work.
How do they survive? Crime, cash jobs and benefits may be part of the story but I suggest we need to take a very hard look at the generosity of our welfare system. Unless we do soon the situation is only going to get worse.
MURRAY REID, Tuakau
Dear Editor, (Sent to the New Zealand Herald 4/5/18)
Labour has a bill drawn from the ballot to entrench Maori electoral seats. When NZ moved to MMP, the political architects recommended these seats be scrapped as they would be totally unnecessary under the new system. Even under first-past-the-post they were redundant since all Maori men got the vote back in 1867 – well before non-landowning men got it in 1879 and way before women in 1893.
The number of MPs with Maori blood in our Parliament today actively demonstrates how farcical this separatism is. Race-based seats are not needed and are only desired by those wanting to destroy our democracy.
FIONA MACKENZIE, Whangaparaoa
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Nelson Mail 4/5/18)
What Gary Clover writes (“Mail”, 25/4/18) is most misleading. He omits saying that on Tuesday morning (24th) he telephoned me and after a brief exchange he called me a liar and slammed down the receiver. I await his explanation. To quote him: “I have academic qualifications to write of the Treaty”. His letter is neither informed nor academic. Nor are his weak secondary sources, Claudia Orange in particular. His inference that only persons with his academic qualifications may write of the Treaty is intellectual arrogance.
Referring to the Nelson Provincial Museum, its webpage opens thus:
“Creating unforgettable experiences that stimulate awareness, celebrate diversity, entertain, and excite action."
Implicit in this is that presentations will be professionally researched, accurate and relevant; the more so since that the Museum is funded from public money. Regrettably, the ‘Taranaki War’ exhibition was not accurate, appropriately researched nor relevant. The director at that time did not feel comfortable with being called out on it but he has assured me he played no part in the move to have my Nelson Institute talk cancelled. It is now up to Mr Clover to disclose the source of his allegations and those involved in the cancellation of my talk who are apparently known to him.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
Shortage of Kumara workers.
Growers report this is the worst season ever for getting workers to harvest the crop.
There are about 100000 16 to 24 year olds in New Zealand who have nothing to do. They are not in work, education or training.
My guess is the Kumara growing area of Northland has more than its fair share of such people.
While some will have genuine reasons for choosing to lie in each morning I suspect that many just have no inclination to work.
How do they survive? Crime, cash jobs and benefits may be part of the story but I suggest we need to take a very hard look at the generosity of our welfare system. Unless we do soon the situation is only going to get worse.
MURRAY REID, Tuakau
Dear Editor, (Sent to the New Zealand Herald 4/5/18)
Labour has a bill drawn from the ballot to entrench Maori electoral seats. When NZ moved to MMP, the political architects recommended these seats be scrapped as they would be totally unnecessary under the new system. Even under first-past-the-post they were redundant since all Maori men got the vote back in 1867 – well before non-landowning men got it in 1879 and way before women in 1893.
The number of MPs with Maori blood in our Parliament today actively demonstrates how farcical this separatism is. Race-based seats are not needed and are only desired by those wanting to destroy our democracy.
FIONA MACKENZIE, Whangaparaoa
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Nelson Mail 4/5/18)
What Gary Clover writes (“Mail”, 25/4/18) is most misleading. He omits saying that on Tuesday morning (24th) he telephoned me and after a brief exchange he called me a liar and slammed down the receiver. I await his explanation. To quote him: “I have academic qualifications to write of the Treaty”. His letter is neither informed nor academic. Nor are his weak secondary sources, Claudia Orange in particular. His inference that only persons with his academic qualifications may write of the Treaty is intellectual arrogance.
Referring to the Nelson Provincial Museum, its webpage opens thus:
“Creating unforgettable experiences that stimulate awareness, celebrate diversity, entertain, and excite action."
Implicit in this is that presentations will be professionally researched, accurate and relevant; the more so since that the Museum is funded from public money. Regrettably, the ‘Taranaki War’ exhibition was not accurate, appropriately researched nor relevant. The director at that time did not feel comfortable with being called out on it but he has assured me he played no part in the move to have my Nelson Institute talk cancelled. It is now up to Mr Clover to disclose the source of his allegations and those involved in the cancellation of my talk who are apparently known to him.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters