Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 7, 2019 4:53:19 GMT 12
NZ Herald 7/2/19
BRASH SET UP
I read your article about Don Brash at Waitangi with outrage.
I am not a Brash supporter but believe it took courage for him to return.
His reasoning is irrelevant in this case because the real issue is that he was invited by the forum facilitator, Rueben Taipiri.
Rueben did not invite him for freedom of speech, he did so to humiliate him because it was Rueben’s partner and mother of his children who was the protester with the loudspeaker. It was a set up. Shameful.
There is no way forward for a united New Zealand when such open hostility is created by a leader at Waitangi. I think it’s a sad day for Maori.
SARA KENNEDY, Ahipara.
OUR NAME
It seems to have escaped Riro Marett’s notice there are two main official languages in this country, English and Maori. Each has its own place names for the same geographical features.
Aotearoa may or may not be the prehistoric Maori name for the country but it is appropriate that it be the modern Maori name for it.
However, it is not, and nor should it be, the modern English language name.
New Zealand was not named by Tasman. He called it Staaten Land, because he thought it was part of land near South America discovered by a countryman and given that name.
It was subsequently realised the land found by Tasman could not be part of the same land mass, so Tasman’s discovery was renamed New Zealand, and has remained so in every language, including Maori.
JOHN MIHALJEVIC, Te Atatu South.
NZ Herald 7/2/19 (Short & Sweet)
ON TREATY
Interesting that none of our Treaty genuflecting ministers could quote one sentence of our founding document.
GRAHAM STEENSON, Whakatane.
ON PAKEHA
My parents lived in Ruatahuna for three years in the 1930s. My father spoke fluent Maori, even helping the local Maori reverend translate the Bible into Maori. Pakeha was the name given to the mongrel dogs that ran freely around the village.
LYNNE SHAW, Te Awamutu.
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BRASH SET UP
I read your article about Don Brash at Waitangi with outrage.
I am not a Brash supporter but believe it took courage for him to return.
His reasoning is irrelevant in this case because the real issue is that he was invited by the forum facilitator, Rueben Taipiri.
Rueben did not invite him for freedom of speech, he did so to humiliate him because it was Rueben’s partner and mother of his children who was the protester with the loudspeaker. It was a set up. Shameful.
There is no way forward for a united New Zealand when such open hostility is created by a leader at Waitangi. I think it’s a sad day for Maori.
SARA KENNEDY, Ahipara.
OUR NAME
It seems to have escaped Riro Marett’s notice there are two main official languages in this country, English and Maori. Each has its own place names for the same geographical features.
Aotearoa may or may not be the prehistoric Maori name for the country but it is appropriate that it be the modern Maori name for it.
However, it is not, and nor should it be, the modern English language name.
New Zealand was not named by Tasman. He called it Staaten Land, because he thought it was part of land near South America discovered by a countryman and given that name.
It was subsequently realised the land found by Tasman could not be part of the same land mass, so Tasman’s discovery was renamed New Zealand, and has remained so in every language, including Maori.
JOHN MIHALJEVIC, Te Atatu South.
NZ Herald 7/2/19 (Short & Sweet)
ON TREATY
Interesting that none of our Treaty genuflecting ministers could quote one sentence of our founding document.
GRAHAM STEENSON, Whakatane.
ON PAKEHA
My parents lived in Ruatahuna for three years in the 1930s. My father spoke fluent Maori, even helping the local Maori reverend translate the Bible into Maori. Pakeha was the name given to the mongrel dogs that ran freely around the village.
LYNNE SHAW, Te Awamutu.
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers