Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 9, 2018 6:30:58 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Wanganui Chronicle 30/8/18)
Does Rhodes scholar Ross Lee (Letters 27/8/18) really expect us to believe that Hobson and Busby were so inept as to draft a treaty where the Maoris clearly ceded sovereignty in Article 1 (read Colenso’s record) and then a contradiction in Article 2 in saying they somehow retained their sovereignty?
Whatever the meaning of “tino rangatiratanga” in Article 2 it means nothing remotely like sovereignty.
The only tenable meaning is “full possession”. Moreover it was assured to ALL the people of NZ.
Further, it appears Lee does not know that the chiefs wrote to King William IV asking for protection and that letter clearly showed that the chiefs concerns were not so much the lawless few Pakeha at Kororeka, it was mainly the French (Marian) and the fear of utu from fellow now armed tribes.
In closing I challenge Mr Lee to point to the clause/s or word/s that he believes even infer a Crown/Maori ‘partnership’ in the true Maori language treaty which approx 500 chiefs signed.
GEOFF PARKER, Whangarei
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Northland Age)
Re article in Herald on Sunday 13th August. “It is time to blow the whistle on the Haka”. Lets look at the Haka and where it came from, Although Te Rauparaha wrote the words to it, it is a bastardise version of the “Dance of Bes” of Egypt.
Bes was a bow legged dwarf with red hair who used to perform a dance for the women and children and their home as there protector. Been a dwarf he would stand in a squatting stance bow legged just like what the All Backs and others do. He holds a rod in one hand and he moves about, this was a spiritual dance to do a blessing and keep any evil spirits away.
It was also performed over new born babies, and over planted crops to help glow and bear food for its people. This was done in a positive way. The ancient people of New Zealand lived this way in love and peace before the maori arrived not a negative way done by the All Blacks poking out their tongues and slitting the throat.
This Haka is now taught in school it will bring about hatred in the children to act in an aggressive way. It about time the Haka is stopped as it has been overdone.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
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Does Rhodes scholar Ross Lee (Letters 27/8/18) really expect us to believe that Hobson and Busby were so inept as to draft a treaty where the Maoris clearly ceded sovereignty in Article 1 (read Colenso’s record) and then a contradiction in Article 2 in saying they somehow retained their sovereignty?
Whatever the meaning of “tino rangatiratanga” in Article 2 it means nothing remotely like sovereignty.
The only tenable meaning is “full possession”. Moreover it was assured to ALL the people of NZ.
Further, it appears Lee does not know that the chiefs wrote to King William IV asking for protection and that letter clearly showed that the chiefs concerns were not so much the lawless few Pakeha at Kororeka, it was mainly the French (Marian) and the fear of utu from fellow now armed tribes.
In closing I challenge Mr Lee to point to the clause/s or word/s that he believes even infer a Crown/Maori ‘partnership’ in the true Maori language treaty which approx 500 chiefs signed.
GEOFF PARKER, Whangarei
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Northland Age)
Re article in Herald on Sunday 13th August. “It is time to blow the whistle on the Haka”. Lets look at the Haka and where it came from, Although Te Rauparaha wrote the words to it, it is a bastardise version of the “Dance of Bes” of Egypt.
Bes was a bow legged dwarf with red hair who used to perform a dance for the women and children and their home as there protector. Been a dwarf he would stand in a squatting stance bow legged just like what the All Backs and others do. He holds a rod in one hand and he moves about, this was a spiritual dance to do a blessing and keep any evil spirits away.
It was also performed over new born babies, and over planted crops to help glow and bear food for its people. This was done in a positive way. The ancient people of New Zealand lived this way in love and peace before the maori arrived not a negative way done by the All Blacks poking out their tongues and slitting the throat.
This Haka is now taught in school it will bring about hatred in the children to act in an aggressive way. It about time the Haka is stopped as it has been overdone.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters