Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 24, 2019 5:29:56 GMT 12
Northland Age 24/1/19
SHARING GOOD TIMES
Waitangi Day celebrations will soon be disrupted once again by the circus of the dysfunctional and disaffected. It should be a joyous day, celebrating an amazingly enlightened treaty for its time with its citizen equality and property rights. Its commitment to law and order saw the end of tribal warfare and the development of a peaceful and pleasant democracy.
I cannot understand the foolishness of those determined to ruin the day. They reinterpret history, and promote lies, resentment, feudalism and separatism. Celebrating culture is to be encouraged, but instilling apartheid ideology is destructive and dangerous. The only winners are the greedy and selfish tribal mafia
We just have to look around our homes, sports and workplaces to see that most of us are definitely united as New Zealanders. We cannot take the Maori out of the Pakeha, no more than we can take the Pakeha out of the Maori. We are one, despite the usual familial quirks.
A national day reset is the solution. Let's celebrate New Zealand Day, which is what most are already doing informally on February 6 anyway. Away from the political limelight, we are just Kiwis wanting to share good times with friends, family and our communities.
GEOFF PARKER Kamo
NO NEWS
It astounds me that for many years TVNZ have continued, and got away with, the inexplicable policy of no morning news over the Christmas/New Year period and this time from December 21 until Monday, January 21 (one month) no service is provided.
The problem is not the loss of the inane Breakfast Show, it is lack of any morning national /world TV news coverage whatsoever.
If TVNZ’s overpaid, often underperforming newsreaders need a break for a month, so be it, but that is not the viewers’ problem. All that is required by the public are competent aspiring news readers appearing at 8am and 8.30am to read the news, collate sports results and summarise the day’s weather — total time 15 minutes each slot.
Incidentally, this service should be available seven days a week, not five days.
I for one am not interested in the usual fatuous excuses trotted out — we are not yet a third-world country, and viewers, who pour millions of dollars annually into propping up TVNZ, deserve a regular and better morning news service over the Christmas/New Year break.
An assurance is sought that TVNZ and the Minister of Broadcasting will address this aberration.
After all, part-Maori TV (another taxpayer money pit) have Te Kaea news each morning 365 days per year, albeit it is of little use to most Kiwis.
ROB PATERSON, Mt Maunganui
Northern Advocate 24/1/19
ONE WORD
I have one word in reply to Marie Kaire's letter, dated January 19. "Moa".
ANNE LEWIN, Maungatapere
Taranaki Daily News 24/1/19
WHERE WILL THEY GO?
Regarding the return of the Taranaki Maori taonga to the Puke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth
After visiting the Puke Ariki Museum last year, which was an amazing and interesting exercise, I was taken aback when invited down into the basement. It was packed with items in storage because there was no display space.
I agree with the return of local taonga items but also the other Taranaki historical items, yet I ask the question to Peter Moeahu and the local Taranaki Maori iwi, that the Puke Ariki Museum is big enough and has the space to store or display these extra items.
Who is going to pay for the cost of the return of these items, storage and/or display them? It is easy to say return them but in your recent article Peter Moeahu gave no comment of the costs or the extra space required.
IAN MCALPINE, Inglewood
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
SHARING GOOD TIMES
Waitangi Day celebrations will soon be disrupted once again by the circus of the dysfunctional and disaffected. It should be a joyous day, celebrating an amazingly enlightened treaty for its time with its citizen equality and property rights. Its commitment to law and order saw the end of tribal warfare and the development of a peaceful and pleasant democracy.
I cannot understand the foolishness of those determined to ruin the day. They reinterpret history, and promote lies, resentment, feudalism and separatism. Celebrating culture is to be encouraged, but instilling apartheid ideology is destructive and dangerous. The only winners are the greedy and selfish tribal mafia
We just have to look around our homes, sports and workplaces to see that most of us are definitely united as New Zealanders. We cannot take the Maori out of the Pakeha, no more than we can take the Pakeha out of the Maori. We are one, despite the usual familial quirks.
A national day reset is the solution. Let's celebrate New Zealand Day, which is what most are already doing informally on February 6 anyway. Away from the political limelight, we are just Kiwis wanting to share good times with friends, family and our communities.
GEOFF PARKER Kamo
NO NEWS
It astounds me that for many years TVNZ have continued, and got away with, the inexplicable policy of no morning news over the Christmas/New Year period and this time from December 21 until Monday, January 21 (one month) no service is provided.
The problem is not the loss of the inane Breakfast Show, it is lack of any morning national /world TV news coverage whatsoever.
If TVNZ’s overpaid, often underperforming newsreaders need a break for a month, so be it, but that is not the viewers’ problem. All that is required by the public are competent aspiring news readers appearing at 8am and 8.30am to read the news, collate sports results and summarise the day’s weather — total time 15 minutes each slot.
Incidentally, this service should be available seven days a week, not five days.
I for one am not interested in the usual fatuous excuses trotted out — we are not yet a third-world country, and viewers, who pour millions of dollars annually into propping up TVNZ, deserve a regular and better morning news service over the Christmas/New Year break.
An assurance is sought that TVNZ and the Minister of Broadcasting will address this aberration.
After all, part-Maori TV (another taxpayer money pit) have Te Kaea news each morning 365 days per year, albeit it is of little use to most Kiwis.
ROB PATERSON, Mt Maunganui
Northern Advocate 24/1/19
ONE WORD
I have one word in reply to Marie Kaire's letter, dated January 19. "Moa".
ANNE LEWIN, Maungatapere
Taranaki Daily News 24/1/19
WHERE WILL THEY GO?
Regarding the return of the Taranaki Maori taonga to the Puke Ariki Museum in New Plymouth
After visiting the Puke Ariki Museum last year, which was an amazing and interesting exercise, I was taken aback when invited down into the basement. It was packed with items in storage because there was no display space.
I agree with the return of local taonga items but also the other Taranaki historical items, yet I ask the question to Peter Moeahu and the local Taranaki Maori iwi, that the Puke Ariki Museum is big enough and has the space to store or display these extra items.
Who is going to pay for the cost of the return of these items, storage and/or display them? It is easy to say return them but in your recent article Peter Moeahu gave no comment of the costs or the extra space required.
IAN MCALPINE, Inglewood
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers