Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 3, 2018 6:20:58 GMT 12
The Press 3/11/18
NGAI TAHU
It is interesting that neither of the articles about Ngai Tahu's financial activities (Oct 26, 30), inform readers of Ngai Tahu taxpayer-subsidised status.
An uninformed reader would assume that these were businesses owned by private shareholders, not a charitable trust with its income tax-exempt status.
For example, one article states that as the business was run under an iwi model, its shareholders had a strong requirement for social and environmental responsibility.
Iwi are not shareholders at all.
They are the beneficiaries of the business activities undertaken by the 39 companies that have been registered as tax charities, as well as numerous other joint ventures and interests in other companies.
Ngai Tahu Farming Ltd is owned by Ngai Tahu Corporation Ltd, which in turn is owned by Ngai Tahu Charitable Trust, of which the sole trustee is Te Runanga 0 Ngai Tahu.
DR MICHAEL GOUSMETT, University of Canterbury Independent Researcher and Public Historian
Sunlive / Weekend Sun 2/11/18
CHURCH SHOULD NOT SUPPORT CLAIM
Why is the Anglican Church apologising to a couple of Tauranga sub-tribes for selling its land to the Crown in 1867 "without seeking their agreement"? There was no need to seek anybody's agreement since the Church Missionary Society had bought the land outright by two purchases in 1838 and 1839 – transactions that were ticked off by Governor Hobson's Land Commission after 1840 as conveyances that had been made freely between willing sellers and a willing buyer.
Either the Church is plain dumb or it is colluding with the tribal elite to deceive the public.
At the Anglican Synod in May 2018, the Church said that it would support an application to the Waitangi Tribunal by the Ngai Tamarawaho and Ngati Tapu to get some ‘compensation’ (from the taxpayer) for this ‘grievance’ that historically does not exist.
As we wrote in our recent book Gate Pa and Te Ranga: The Full Story "If the Anglican Church genuinely wants to create harmony and integrity in society, it should not be misrepresenting historical truths in support of a bogus claim for a non-existent grievance that has as its object the further enrichment of the tribal elite at the expense of the taxpaying public".
J MCLEAN AND J ROBINSON, Wellington.
Re ^^: www.sunlive.co.nz/news/191669-formal-apology-to-be-made-over-confiscated-land.html
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
NGAI TAHU
It is interesting that neither of the articles about Ngai Tahu's financial activities (Oct 26, 30), inform readers of Ngai Tahu taxpayer-subsidised status.
An uninformed reader would assume that these were businesses owned by private shareholders, not a charitable trust with its income tax-exempt status.
For example, one article states that as the business was run under an iwi model, its shareholders had a strong requirement for social and environmental responsibility.
Iwi are not shareholders at all.
They are the beneficiaries of the business activities undertaken by the 39 companies that have been registered as tax charities, as well as numerous other joint ventures and interests in other companies.
Ngai Tahu Farming Ltd is owned by Ngai Tahu Corporation Ltd, which in turn is owned by Ngai Tahu Charitable Trust, of which the sole trustee is Te Runanga 0 Ngai Tahu.
DR MICHAEL GOUSMETT, University of Canterbury Independent Researcher and Public Historian
Sunlive / Weekend Sun 2/11/18
CHURCH SHOULD NOT SUPPORT CLAIM
Why is the Anglican Church apologising to a couple of Tauranga sub-tribes for selling its land to the Crown in 1867 "without seeking their agreement"? There was no need to seek anybody's agreement since the Church Missionary Society had bought the land outright by two purchases in 1838 and 1839 – transactions that were ticked off by Governor Hobson's Land Commission after 1840 as conveyances that had been made freely between willing sellers and a willing buyer.
Either the Church is plain dumb or it is colluding with the tribal elite to deceive the public.
At the Anglican Synod in May 2018, the Church said that it would support an application to the Waitangi Tribunal by the Ngai Tamarawaho and Ngati Tapu to get some ‘compensation’ (from the taxpayer) for this ‘grievance’ that historically does not exist.
As we wrote in our recent book Gate Pa and Te Ranga: The Full Story "If the Anglican Church genuinely wants to create harmony and integrity in society, it should not be misrepresenting historical truths in support of a bogus claim for a non-existent grievance that has as its object the further enrichment of the tribal elite at the expense of the taxpaying public".
J MCLEAN AND J ROBINSON, Wellington.
Re ^^: www.sunlive.co.nz/news/191669-formal-apology-to-be-made-over-confiscated-land.html
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers