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Wanganui Chronicle 12/7/16
RIFF RAFF?
Potonga Neilson ( June 29) is again permitted to use the term “riff-raff” when describing early settlers, although he is getting the settlers of New Zealand and Australia mixed up.
Those coming here were generally tradesmen, merchants and farmers who paid for their passage. His “people with criminal tendencies” went to Oz for free. Modern-day examples of his definitive riff-raff” can be seen around the Wanganui courthouse every day that the court sits.
His ability to avoid subjects detrimental to his “chosen” race and fabricate historical “fact” to suit his own ideas is amazing.
Europeans did not bring cholera to NZ deliberately. Isolation in the far corners of the Earth prevented common diseases elsewhere being introduced for a time, but when those more t echnologically advanced peoples ventured about the world, their diseases went with them.
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Maori could aptly be described as “stone age” compared to most other countries — not their fault, but again due to isolation.
Most Maori resources for the maintenance of life and death were based on vegetation and stone — vegetation for food and the construction of shelter, and stone for such activities as grinding vegetative matter for food and dispatching others to the great beyond in the form of weapons.
Not too many steam engines around, but hot stones were used to create steam to cook food. Claiming that a few Taranaki Maori were “naughty” is irrelevant, and as a Taranaki Maori he should accept responsibility for the actions of his multiforebears.
Potonga, you can spend as long as you like rewriting history. the Japanese tried after World War II and failed — you will too. (Edited.)
D P
Eastown
Dominion Post 12/7/16
TO THE POINT section
The report is out Teachers are Failing Maori Students. Now we all wait for the other report: Maori Students are Failing Teachers.
- A G. Newtown
The New Zealand Herald 11/7/16 (Short & Sweet section)
ON LANGUAGE
Heather du Plessis-Allan says, “We have been marking Maori language week since 1975, yet the number of Maori speakers still keeps falling.” It should evolve naturally without force-feeding — if it becomes ornamental like Latin, so be it.
GEOFF PARKER,
Kamo.
RIFF RAFF?
Potonga Neilson ( June 29) is again permitted to use the term “riff-raff” when describing early settlers, although he is getting the settlers of New Zealand and Australia mixed up.
Those coming here were generally tradesmen, merchants and farmers who paid for their passage. His “people with criminal tendencies” went to Oz for free. Modern-day examples of his definitive riff-raff” can be seen around the Wanganui courthouse every day that the court sits.
His ability to avoid subjects detrimental to his “chosen” race and fabricate historical “fact” to suit his own ideas is amazing.
Europeans did not bring cholera to NZ deliberately. Isolation in the far corners of the Earth prevented common diseases elsewhere being introduced for a time, but when those more t echnologically advanced peoples ventured about the world, their diseases went with them.
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, Maori could aptly be described as “stone age” compared to most other countries — not their fault, but again due to isolation.
Most Maori resources for the maintenance of life and death were based on vegetation and stone — vegetation for food and the construction of shelter, and stone for such activities as grinding vegetative matter for food and dispatching others to the great beyond in the form of weapons.
Not too many steam engines around, but hot stones were used to create steam to cook food. Claiming that a few Taranaki Maori were “naughty” is irrelevant, and as a Taranaki Maori he should accept responsibility for the actions of his multiforebears.
Potonga, you can spend as long as you like rewriting history. the Japanese tried after World War II and failed — you will too. (Edited.)
D P
Eastown
Dominion Post 12/7/16
TO THE POINT section
The report is out Teachers are Failing Maori Students. Now we all wait for the other report: Maori Students are Failing Teachers.
- A G. Newtown
The New Zealand Herald 11/7/16 (Short & Sweet section)
ON LANGUAGE
Heather du Plessis-Allan says, “We have been marking Maori language week since 1975, yet the number of Maori speakers still keeps falling.” It should evolve naturally without force-feeding — if it becomes ornamental like Latin, so be it.
GEOFF PARKER,
Kamo.
