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Taranaki Daily News 20/6/16
WALKY TALKY
While many bask in the pseudo glow of self-righteousness surrounding the Peace Walk, I have two major questions.
1) Did the council approve/ give permission for the mayor to use the Mayoral Chain on this walk?
2) Who is paying for the traffic management system (at least two heavy trucks and staff) on this three-day event? If it is public money, how much is it costing and who is paying?
D P
New Plymouth
Bay of Plenty Times 20/6/16
NAMES AND RACE
Peter Dey’s letter (June 14) claims it is only new Maori names people object to. It is the continual changing of European names (as in parks, mountains, rivers, etc) to Maori names which people object to.
At no time did I mention whether Maori names were hard to pronounce.
What I actually said was, Maori make up only 16 per cent of the population and true racial tolerance would result in just 16 per cent of names being Maori names. (Abridged.)
J H
Tauranga
The Northern Advocate 20/6/16
INTERPRETATION
It is galling how elite Maori cherrypick and reinterpret the Treaty of Waitangi to further their fortunes and control of New Zealand.
The racially biased Waitangi Tribunal say that Ngapuhi never ceded sovereignty and yet in article one it clearly specifies they were "ceding sovereignty to the Queen", which the chiefs accepted by signing.
In a recent Waatea 5th Estate debate, Hone Harawira (Ngapuhi) appeared to accept the Treaty by using the word "taonga" in article two to support his argument in support of the spurious Maori claim for our country's fresh water.
The definition of "taonga" can range from anything between personal "property/ possession" in 1840, to the sky's the limit "treasure" in 2016. However the choice of defin-ition does not matter because whatever it may be, it was guaranteed to all the people of
New Zealand, not just to the Maori signees or their opportunist descendants of mixed heritage.
GEOFF PARKER
Kamo
Wanganui Chronicle 20/6/16
DICTATOR NEEDED
Potonga for president! (Letters, June 15). Mmmm, that could work as a campaign slogan for your Maoriland democratic republic. But even better is your plan to appoint yourself leader. We need a dictator to get this country back on track, although you’ll probably have to delete the democratic bit.
And I like your reference “colonial riff-raff”. Nothing like a dose of good, old-fashioned racism to get the supporters on side.
M C
Wanganui
LAND SALES
It is simply not true that after 1840 the British acted to “send in their armies, and then shonky land buyers, to drive the native Maorilanders out of their ancestral homes”, as claimed by John Archer (June 7).
The first action was to investigate all previous land deals. Most were unsatisfactory and were turned down, so the land r emained with t he Maori owners.
An early wrong was the very opposite of that claimed. When Commissioner Spain confirmed a sale of 60,000 acres in Taranaki, Governor Fitzroy set it aside and pushed new settlers off the land that they had just developed.
Maori did not lack “good food and shelter”. In fact, these became more secure with the end of savage intertribal wars. Many Maori knew this.
As one chief, Taipari, commented: “If we continue fighting, our race will become extinct. In my view, it was the arrival of the missionaries and subsequent colonisation which saved the Maori race from extinction.”
JOHN ROBINSON
Wellington
WALKY TALKY
While many bask in the pseudo glow of self-righteousness surrounding the Peace Walk, I have two major questions.
1) Did the council approve/ give permission for the mayor to use the Mayoral Chain on this walk?
2) Who is paying for the traffic management system (at least two heavy trucks and staff) on this three-day event? If it is public money, how much is it costing and who is paying?
D P
New Plymouth
Bay of Plenty Times 20/6/16
NAMES AND RACE
Peter Dey’s letter (June 14) claims it is only new Maori names people object to. It is the continual changing of European names (as in parks, mountains, rivers, etc) to Maori names which people object to.
At no time did I mention whether Maori names were hard to pronounce.
What I actually said was, Maori make up only 16 per cent of the population and true racial tolerance would result in just 16 per cent of names being Maori names. (Abridged.)
J H
Tauranga
The Northern Advocate 20/6/16
INTERPRETATION
It is galling how elite Maori cherrypick and reinterpret the Treaty of Waitangi to further their fortunes and control of New Zealand.
The racially biased Waitangi Tribunal say that Ngapuhi never ceded sovereignty and yet in article one it clearly specifies they were "ceding sovereignty to the Queen", which the chiefs accepted by signing.
In a recent Waatea 5th Estate debate, Hone Harawira (Ngapuhi) appeared to accept the Treaty by using the word "taonga" in article two to support his argument in support of the spurious Maori claim for our country's fresh water.
The definition of "taonga" can range from anything between personal "property/ possession" in 1840, to the sky's the limit "treasure" in 2016. However the choice of defin-ition does not matter because whatever it may be, it was guaranteed to all the people of
New Zealand, not just to the Maori signees or their opportunist descendants of mixed heritage.
GEOFF PARKER
Kamo
Wanganui Chronicle 20/6/16
DICTATOR NEEDED
Potonga for president! (Letters, June 15). Mmmm, that could work as a campaign slogan for your Maoriland democratic republic. But even better is your plan to appoint yourself leader. We need a dictator to get this country back on track, although you’ll probably have to delete the democratic bit.
And I like your reference “colonial riff-raff”. Nothing like a dose of good, old-fashioned racism to get the supporters on side.
M C
Wanganui
LAND SALES
It is simply not true that after 1840 the British acted to “send in their armies, and then shonky land buyers, to drive the native Maorilanders out of their ancestral homes”, as claimed by John Archer (June 7).
The first action was to investigate all previous land deals. Most were unsatisfactory and were turned down, so the land r emained with t he Maori owners.
An early wrong was the very opposite of that claimed. When Commissioner Spain confirmed a sale of 60,000 acres in Taranaki, Governor Fitzroy set it aside and pushed new settlers off the land that they had just developed.
Maori did not lack “good food and shelter”. In fact, these became more secure with the end of savage intertribal wars. Many Maori knew this.
As one chief, Taipari, commented: “If we continue fighting, our race will become extinct. In my view, it was the arrival of the missionaries and subsequent colonisation which saved the Maori race from extinction.”
JOHN ROBINSON
Wellington