Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 8, 2019 6:33:54 GMT 12
Otago Daily Times 8/8/19
CULTURAL DIVIDE
I WOULD like to add my voice to Russell Garbutt’s regarding ‘‘Hands off our Tamariki’’ (letters, 1.8.19).
I am getting more and more frustrated over what appears to be a growing division of our culture.
I believe it is time to accept that we are all Kiwis, certainly not denying the differences in our cultures, but surely after 150 years, we should be able to get along together and start to take responsibility for our own actions.
We cannot fix what occurred in the past, but there have been many settlements to amend previous wrongs.
Until we can accept that we are all one nation and start working towards moving forward, there is always going to be conflict of interest.
PIP WEBER, Abbotsford
Northland Age 8/8/19
LOGICAL RESOLUTIONS
It is surely time for the protection of at-risk Maori children be handed over to their whanau and the resolution of the drug problems be given to the gangs.
BRYAN JOHNSON Omokoroa
SOVEREIGNTY
Though a lie may be told a hundred times or a thousand times, that does not make it true.
So it is with the continual claims today that the Ngapuhi tribe never ceded sovereignty.
Now, Article first of both the actual Treaty which was signed and Hobson's final draft of February 4, 1840, in English state very clearly that the chiefs cede sovereignty to the Queen completely and for ever. When senior Ngapuhi elder Graham Rankin was shown both in the year 2000 he agreed that they said exactly the same thing. This had been confirmed loud and dear at the great Kohimarama conference of 1860 when senior Ngapuhi chiefs asserted their unswerving loyalty to their sovereign, the Queen.
So how many more times are we to hear that lie amongst lies, that Ngapuhi did not cede sovereignty to the Queen?
BRUCE MOON Nelson
CULTURAL DIVIDE
I WOULD like to add my voice to Russell Garbutt’s regarding ‘‘Hands off our Tamariki’’ (letters, 1.8.19).
I am getting more and more frustrated over what appears to be a growing division of our culture.
I believe it is time to accept that we are all Kiwis, certainly not denying the differences in our cultures, but surely after 150 years, we should be able to get along together and start to take responsibility for our own actions.
We cannot fix what occurred in the past, but there have been many settlements to amend previous wrongs.
Until we can accept that we are all one nation and start working towards moving forward, there is always going to be conflict of interest.
PIP WEBER, Abbotsford
Northland Age 8/8/19
LOGICAL RESOLUTIONS
It is surely time for the protection of at-risk Maori children be handed over to their whanau and the resolution of the drug problems be given to the gangs.
BRYAN JOHNSON Omokoroa
SOVEREIGNTY
Though a lie may be told a hundred times or a thousand times, that does not make it true.
So it is with the continual claims today that the Ngapuhi tribe never ceded sovereignty.
Now, Article first of both the actual Treaty which was signed and Hobson's final draft of February 4, 1840, in English state very clearly that the chiefs cede sovereignty to the Queen completely and for ever. When senior Ngapuhi elder Graham Rankin was shown both in the year 2000 he agreed that they said exactly the same thing. This had been confirmed loud and dear at the great Kohimarama conference of 1860 when senior Ngapuhi chiefs asserted their unswerving loyalty to their sovereign, the Queen.
So how many more times are we to hear that lie amongst lies, that Ngapuhi did not cede sovereignty to the Queen?
BRUCE MOON Nelson