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Northland Age 24/5/16
A BROKEN RECORD
Privileged drama queen columnist Snively Marvelly started off by showing her ignorance on the freshwater topic (Maori think tank version), moved on to the "couch casting" harassment within the entertainment industry (either real or perceived ), about which she no doubt lodged complaints at the time it happened (?), then caps it all off with a dissertation on the flawed Mr Judd and his insane push, in cahoots with the Maori Party for effectively legislating non-elected and race-based local authority/council representation.
Lizzie needs to change the medication, because it's playing out like a broken record; racist short on fact, short on reality, and long on myth. It would also assist the reading public for the media to air the valid factual criticisms to see how her phobias stand up to scrutiny.
R P
Mount Maunganui
NOT DISPUTED
I am pleased that Wally Hicks (letters May 19) does not dispute the fact that pre-1840 Maori life consisted of unabated butchery, cannibalism, slavery and female infanticide.These horrid practices were well established in the stately Maori culture long before European contact, and it was the Christian concepts of the "wicked white coloniser" that brought an end to them.
If the Crown was a beneficiary of Hongi's musket-buying and the resulting wars, as Hicks assumes, why then did the Crown bother to bring law and order in 1840? Surely it would have made more sense to continue letting Maori annihilate themselves and then walk into a vacant country.
On cue, Hicks mentions diseases. It is true that some disease, tobacco, alcohol and sugar came with the "wicked white coloniser", but it does not mean that people have to smoke, drink liquor and eat sugary food.
GEOFF PARKER
Kamo
Wanganui Chronicle 24/5/16
MIGRATION MYTHS
We have been living a lie for the past few hundred years. There was never a great fleet of canoes that sailed together down from the Pacific Islands, bringing hundreds of Maori to New Zealand. In The Penguin History Of New Zealand [P38], author Michael King referred to the so-called 904AD Kupe landing as "The great New Zealand myth". Michael King says the Kupe myth was in fact created by two Europeans and then taught throughout primary schools from 1910 through to the 1970s.
Maori maps records that the historical Kupe sailed into Hokianga harbour in 1325AD, not 940AD. Also the Maori book Mataatua [P6] describes this region as "Hawaiki," well inside New Zealand waters, that several canoes set sail from at different times to establish tribal settlements elsewhere in new Zealand. The true historical evidence clearly shows that some canoes of the so-called Great Fleet did not arrive in New Zealand from overseas; they simply sailed down the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand from "Hawaiki" — that is the Hawaiki located in the upper North Island of New Zealand. Professor K.R. Howe obtained his research from Maori people who were fully aware that Hawaiki is a name found at the following locations: Tamaki, Auckland; Maketu, northern side of Kawhia Harbour; Aotea Harbour. Maxwell C. Hill has put out two excellent books on New Zealand's true history, To the Ends of the Earth, and To the Ends of the Earth and Back Again.
I B
Wanganui
A BROKEN RECORD
Privileged drama queen columnist Snively Marvelly started off by showing her ignorance on the freshwater topic (Maori think tank version), moved on to the "couch casting" harassment within the entertainment industry (either real or perceived ), about which she no doubt lodged complaints at the time it happened (?), then caps it all off with a dissertation on the flawed Mr Judd and his insane push, in cahoots with the Maori Party for effectively legislating non-elected and race-based local authority/council representation.
Lizzie needs to change the medication, because it's playing out like a broken record; racist short on fact, short on reality, and long on myth. It would also assist the reading public for the media to air the valid factual criticisms to see how her phobias stand up to scrutiny.
R P
Mount Maunganui
NOT DISPUTED
I am pleased that Wally Hicks (letters May 19) does not dispute the fact that pre-1840 Maori life consisted of unabated butchery, cannibalism, slavery and female infanticide.These horrid practices were well established in the stately Maori culture long before European contact, and it was the Christian concepts of the "wicked white coloniser" that brought an end to them.
If the Crown was a beneficiary of Hongi's musket-buying and the resulting wars, as Hicks assumes, why then did the Crown bother to bring law and order in 1840? Surely it would have made more sense to continue letting Maori annihilate themselves and then walk into a vacant country.
On cue, Hicks mentions diseases. It is true that some disease, tobacco, alcohol and sugar came with the "wicked white coloniser", but it does not mean that people have to smoke, drink liquor and eat sugary food.
GEOFF PARKER
Kamo
Wanganui Chronicle 24/5/16
MIGRATION MYTHS
We have been living a lie for the past few hundred years. There was never a great fleet of canoes that sailed together down from the Pacific Islands, bringing hundreds of Maori to New Zealand. In The Penguin History Of New Zealand [P38], author Michael King referred to the so-called 904AD Kupe landing as "The great New Zealand myth". Michael King says the Kupe myth was in fact created by two Europeans and then taught throughout primary schools from 1910 through to the 1970s.
Maori maps records that the historical Kupe sailed into Hokianga harbour in 1325AD, not 940AD. Also the Maori book Mataatua [P6] describes this region as "Hawaiki," well inside New Zealand waters, that several canoes set sail from at different times to establish tribal settlements elsewhere in new Zealand. The true historical evidence clearly shows that some canoes of the so-called Great Fleet did not arrive in New Zealand from overseas; they simply sailed down the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand from "Hawaiki" — that is the Hawaiki located in the upper North Island of New Zealand. Professor K.R. Howe obtained his research from Maori people who were fully aware that Hawaiki is a name found at the following locations: Tamaki, Auckland; Maketu, northern side of Kawhia Harbour; Aotea Harbour. Maxwell C. Hill has put out two excellent books on New Zealand's true history, To the Ends of the Earth, and To the Ends of the Earth and Back Again.
I B
Wanganui