Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 16, 2019 16:15:39 GMT 12
Hawkes Bay Today 16/3/19
HERE’S HOPING BOTH PARTIES LEARN FROM FIASCO AT MEETING
Not being at the meeting where Mr Heperi-Smith was shouted at from the floor for speaking te reo, I’m assuming the meeting was held in a public domain, not a marae.
Ignorance can be a two-way street. I’m assuming the audience would have been predominately European.
Feelings would have been running high given housing criminals in the community was being discussed.
Two Maori then start speaking te reo. It seems only after the fact was the audience told a translation would be provided and English would resume. To me, that’s bad manners.
I’m guessing the audience may have thought Mr Heperi-Smith was about to drone on for ages.
That’s a problem with some meetings and events with Maori speakers showing little regard for time constraints and whether an audience understands what they are saying.
Mr Heperi-Smith says Maori isn’t just for Maori — it’s for the whole nation.
Yet his korero was in support of a programme that is only for Maori women. That’s a glaring disconnect.
So maybe that was another factor for some in the audience to be angsty about.
Let’s hope both parties have learnt from this fiasco.
MATIUS RYAN, Wairoa
Bay of Plenty Times 16/3/19
RESPONSIBILITY
As a concerned resident, I attended city council’s (March 5) meeting, where an unheralded, interim committee decision had been taken to gift in principle, 11 Mission St to the Otamataha Maori Trust.
My clear understanding had been that the rates we pay are used for the betterment of the city, environs and residents, not to pay for alleged past grievances.
That is clearly the Government’s responsibility and the route the Maori Trust must take if their claim is to be addressed further.
Of the total committee, only mayor Brownless and councillors Robson, Stewart and Brown voted on behalf of the residents, the remainder, in my view, abrogated their responsibility to this city.
D J BENNETT Bethlehem
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
HERE’S HOPING BOTH PARTIES LEARN FROM FIASCO AT MEETING
Not being at the meeting where Mr Heperi-Smith was shouted at from the floor for speaking te reo, I’m assuming the meeting was held in a public domain, not a marae.
Ignorance can be a two-way street. I’m assuming the audience would have been predominately European.
Feelings would have been running high given housing criminals in the community was being discussed.
Two Maori then start speaking te reo. It seems only after the fact was the audience told a translation would be provided and English would resume. To me, that’s bad manners.
I’m guessing the audience may have thought Mr Heperi-Smith was about to drone on for ages.
That’s a problem with some meetings and events with Maori speakers showing little regard for time constraints and whether an audience understands what they are saying.
Mr Heperi-Smith says Maori isn’t just for Maori — it’s for the whole nation.
Yet his korero was in support of a programme that is only for Maori women. That’s a glaring disconnect.
So maybe that was another factor for some in the audience to be angsty about.
Let’s hope both parties have learnt from this fiasco.
MATIUS RYAN, Wairoa
Bay of Plenty Times 16/3/19
RESPONSIBILITY
As a concerned resident, I attended city council’s (March 5) meeting, where an unheralded, interim committee decision had been taken to gift in principle, 11 Mission St to the Otamataha Maori Trust.
My clear understanding had been that the rates we pay are used for the betterment of the city, environs and residents, not to pay for alleged past grievances.
That is clearly the Government’s responsibility and the route the Maori Trust must take if their claim is to be addressed further.
Of the total committee, only mayor Brownless and councillors Robson, Stewart and Brown voted on behalf of the residents, the remainder, in my view, abrogated their responsibility to this city.
D J BENNETT Bethlehem
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers