Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 14, 2016 9:37:35 GMT 12
The Northern Advocate 14/6/16 Also in the Northland Age 14/6/16
TRUE HISTORY
While Te Papa Museum has admitted it knows all about Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/ Letters Patent dated November 16, 1840, it completely ignores to mention it in any of its exhibitions.
Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent separated New Zealand from New South Wales and made New Zealand into an independent British Colony with its own Governor and Constitution to form a government to make laws with courts and judges to enforce those laws under one flag and one law, irrespective of race, colour or creed.
The Treaty of Waitangi had served its purpose by May 3, 1841, and was filed away where it should have remained when New Zealand adopted the Royal Charter.
The Treaty of Waitangi only gave Britain sovereignty over all the Islands of New Zealand under the dependency of New South Wales and tangata Maori the same rights as the people of England.
Te Papa’s CEO, Dr Arapata Hakiwa, has stated the Treaty of Waitangi Exhibition will be
renewed in five to six years, but this means that another 7.5 to 9 million people, based on 2015 figures, will be misled by Te Papa on our true history. The One New Zealand Foundation Inc. has informed the Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Maggie Barry that more than 1.5 million people a year will be misled over our true history and that Te Papa must immediately renew its Treaty of Waitangi Exhibition giving Queen Victoria's Royal Charter/Letters Patent its true place in our history.
ROSS BAKER
Researcher One New Zealand Foundation Inc.
Wanganui Chronicle 14/6/16
MISUSE OF WORDS
I think your readers will agree that they have had enough from H. Norton (Chronicle, letters; June 6) and will know whose words are "rants". His assertion that before 1840 New Zealand was a "nation state" is simply absurd — a prime example of the misuse of words he so decries.
Norton is also astray in implying that John Robinson and I challenge the validity of the agreement known as the Treaty of Waitangi. I quoted the wise words of Lindsay Buick that it embodied two great principles widely understood by the chiefs, one being that "Britain's right to colonise and govern in New Zealand was incontestable before the world". No more need be said.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
SEMINAR INSIGHTS
Beyond Google? The "Alexander on Ridgway" has been conducting seminars on historical personalities and events. The recent one on Lieutenant John Bryce, for a Massey University thesis, had some valuable as well as personal insights.
Accusations against Bryce over Parihaka and Handley's Woolshed are well known but distorted. This saw Bryce, in 1886, take a defamation case against an author who forgot the maxim "only write about someone who is dead; it's harder for them to sue". A British court awarded Bryce £5000.
Bryce led the Kai Iwi Cavalry at Brunswick in 1868, when Sergeant Maxwell was killed and Trooper Lingard won the Victoria Cross. Maxwell's body was carried on the back of a horse led by my great grandfather.
In 1906 Handley's son wrote to James Carroll at Fordell to ask what really happened? The handwritten reply, held by my cousin, destroys the fabricated and historically incorrect propaganda, which is also culturally insulting. It helps to have a written language. The account in the thesis of the political battle between Bryce and Ballance is also pertinent.
Now I see the NZ Government are paying reparations to Chatham Islands descendants over the massacre of the Moriori by "Taranaki Maori". The bodies, side by side, apparently stretched for a quarter of a mile. Our history has been pirated and we have been unfairly accused, but why are we still paying? Time to tell Parliament: "Enough".
K C
Wanganui
TRUE HISTORY
While Te Papa Museum has admitted it knows all about Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/ Letters Patent dated November 16, 1840, it completely ignores to mention it in any of its exhibitions.
Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/Letters Patent separated New Zealand from New South Wales and made New Zealand into an independent British Colony with its own Governor and Constitution to form a government to make laws with courts and judges to enforce those laws under one flag and one law, irrespective of race, colour or creed.
The Treaty of Waitangi had served its purpose by May 3, 1841, and was filed away where it should have remained when New Zealand adopted the Royal Charter.
The Treaty of Waitangi only gave Britain sovereignty over all the Islands of New Zealand under the dependency of New South Wales and tangata Maori the same rights as the people of England.
Te Papa’s CEO, Dr Arapata Hakiwa, has stated the Treaty of Waitangi Exhibition will be
renewed in five to six years, but this means that another 7.5 to 9 million people, based on 2015 figures, will be misled by Te Papa on our true history. The One New Zealand Foundation Inc. has informed the Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Maggie Barry that more than 1.5 million people a year will be misled over our true history and that Te Papa must immediately renew its Treaty of Waitangi Exhibition giving Queen Victoria's Royal Charter/Letters Patent its true place in our history.
ROSS BAKER
Researcher One New Zealand Foundation Inc.
Wanganui Chronicle 14/6/16
MISUSE OF WORDS
I think your readers will agree that they have had enough from H. Norton (Chronicle, letters; June 6) and will know whose words are "rants". His assertion that before 1840 New Zealand was a "nation state" is simply absurd — a prime example of the misuse of words he so decries.
Norton is also astray in implying that John Robinson and I challenge the validity of the agreement known as the Treaty of Waitangi. I quoted the wise words of Lindsay Buick that it embodied two great principles widely understood by the chiefs, one being that "Britain's right to colonise and govern in New Zealand was incontestable before the world". No more need be said.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
SEMINAR INSIGHTS
Beyond Google? The "Alexander on Ridgway" has been conducting seminars on historical personalities and events. The recent one on Lieutenant John Bryce, for a Massey University thesis, had some valuable as well as personal insights.
Accusations against Bryce over Parihaka and Handley's Woolshed are well known but distorted. This saw Bryce, in 1886, take a defamation case against an author who forgot the maxim "only write about someone who is dead; it's harder for them to sue". A British court awarded Bryce £5000.
Bryce led the Kai Iwi Cavalry at Brunswick in 1868, when Sergeant Maxwell was killed and Trooper Lingard won the Victoria Cross. Maxwell's body was carried on the back of a horse led by my great grandfather.
In 1906 Handley's son wrote to James Carroll at Fordell to ask what really happened? The handwritten reply, held by my cousin, destroys the fabricated and historically incorrect propaganda, which is also culturally insulting. It helps to have a written language. The account in the thesis of the political battle between Bryce and Ballance is also pertinent.
Now I see the NZ Government are paying reparations to Chatham Islands descendants over the massacre of the Moriori by "Taranaki Maori". The bodies, side by side, apparently stretched for a quarter of a mile. Our history has been pirated and we have been unfairly accused, but why are we still paying? Time to tell Parliament: "Enough".
K C
Wanganui