Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 7, 2019 17:15:29 GMT 12
RACIST UNDERTONES IN SUBMISSIONS ON PROSPECT OF LAND BEING GIFTED BACK TO TAURANGA IWI
A Western Bay of Plenty councillor and mayoral candidate is trying to block land being returned to Māori after it was sold by missionaries who never owned it in the first place.
Margaret Murray-Benge says giving 11 Mission Street, in Tauranga, to the Otamataha Trust, who represent Ngāti Tapu and Ngāi Tamarāwaho, to right a historical wrong should not occur as Māori cannot be trusted to keep their word.
The Trust plans to lease the land to neighbouring heritage building society, The Elms, at a peppercorn rent of $1 per year for the next 100 years.
But Murray-Benge says if the transfer goes through Māori would "demand every piece of land in Tauranga".....
www.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/111255494/racist-undertones-in-submissions-on-prospect-of-land-being-gifted-back-to-tauranga-iwi
A Western Bay of Plenty councillor and mayoral candidate is trying to block land being returned to Māori after it was sold by missionaries who never owned it in the first place.
Margaret Murray-Benge says giving 11 Mission Street, in Tauranga, to the Otamataha Trust, who represent Ngāti Tapu and Ngāi Tamarāwaho, to right a historical wrong should not occur as Māori cannot be trusted to keep their word.
The Trust plans to lease the land to neighbouring heritage building society, The Elms, at a peppercorn rent of $1 per year for the next 100 years.
But Murray-Benge says if the transfer goes through Māori would "demand every piece of land in Tauranga".....
www.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plenty/111255494/racist-undertones-in-submissions-on-prospect-of-land-being-gifted-back-to-tauranga-iwi