Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 17, 2019 5:20:31 GMT 12
Herald on Sunday 17/2/19
SPECIAL PRIVILEGE
Peter Moeahu (Letters, February 10) blithers on about Section 3 Burial and Cremations Act 1964 striving to get local council handouts to maintain urupa sites.
Yes, part-Maori can be ratepayers with the right to be buried in any public cemetery with all other Kiwis (equality of choice) yet often choose to be buried in private Maori urupa for cultural and other indeterminate reasons. Being Maori land of this type, likely no rates are paid on it nor do the recipients presumably pay plot fees nor anything else relating to this race-based special privilege.
In these circumstances in return for this special deal, then tribes and families must maintain their “private” cemeteries, not taxpayers or ratepayers.
Perhaps Mr Moeahu is prepared to undertake some proper background research to enlighten us as to how the 1964 statutory provision came about and at whose request Section 3 appeared in the legislation.
The answer is probably obvious, viz. it freed Maori from control on their customary burial grounds, enabling them to run them as they saw fit and gave them rights other Kiwis do not have, while avoiding compliance costs.
ROB PATERSON, Mount Maunganui
Sunday Star Times 17/2/19
TREATY TRANSLATION
Peter Dey (Letters, February 10) twists the truth again. Governor William Hobson's final draft of the Treaty of February 4, 1840, was accurately translated overnight in the Ngapuhi dialect by the Williamses, father and son.
"Kawanatanga" meant "sovereignty" and "rangatiratanga" meant "possession", granted to all the people of New Zealand. Furthermore, the chiefs who spoke at Waitangi knew this.
"Partnership" is a modern fabrication.
Dey's claim that land was "stolen" from Maori owners is not a "myth". About 2.3 per cent was confiscated from rebel tribes in accordance to their custom to pay in part for the suppression of their rebellions.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
SPECIAL PRIVILEGE
Peter Moeahu (Letters, February 10) blithers on about Section 3 Burial and Cremations Act 1964 striving to get local council handouts to maintain urupa sites.
Yes, part-Maori can be ratepayers with the right to be buried in any public cemetery with all other Kiwis (equality of choice) yet often choose to be buried in private Maori urupa for cultural and other indeterminate reasons. Being Maori land of this type, likely no rates are paid on it nor do the recipients presumably pay plot fees nor anything else relating to this race-based special privilege.
In these circumstances in return for this special deal, then tribes and families must maintain their “private” cemeteries, not taxpayers or ratepayers.
Perhaps Mr Moeahu is prepared to undertake some proper background research to enlighten us as to how the 1964 statutory provision came about and at whose request Section 3 appeared in the legislation.
The answer is probably obvious, viz. it freed Maori from control on their customary burial grounds, enabling them to run them as they saw fit and gave them rights other Kiwis do not have, while avoiding compliance costs.
ROB PATERSON, Mount Maunganui
Sunday Star Times 17/2/19
TREATY TRANSLATION
Peter Dey (Letters, February 10) twists the truth again. Governor William Hobson's final draft of the Treaty of February 4, 1840, was accurately translated overnight in the Ngapuhi dialect by the Williamses, father and son.
"Kawanatanga" meant "sovereignty" and "rangatiratanga" meant "possession", granted to all the people of New Zealand. Furthermore, the chiefs who spoke at Waitangi knew this.
"Partnership" is a modern fabrication.
Dey's claim that land was "stolen" from Maori owners is not a "myth". About 2.3 per cent was confiscated from rebel tribes in accordance to their custom to pay in part for the suppression of their rebellions.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers