Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 12, 2021 11:32:44 GMT 12
Bruce Moon: A TALE OF TWO WORLDS
“When I use a word”, Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less” ... “The question is ... which is to be master – that’s all.”
-Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking Glass”, 27.12.1871
Well, let us move back just forty years to the petition of thirteen Ngapuhi chiefs to King William IV: “we pray thee to become our friend and the guardian of these islands.”
And so, nine years later, Captain William Hobson arrived in these islands with the Queen’s commission to do so, providing that “the free intelligent consent of the natives, expressed according to their established usages, shall first be obtained.”
In due course, on 5th February 1840, at Waitangi, Hobson presented his proposal to a great assembly of chiefs and others, saying: “Her Majesty ... wishing to do good to the chiefs and people of New Zealand ... has sent me to this place as governor. But, as the law of England gives no civil powers to Her Majesty out of her dominions, her efforts to do you good will be futile unless you consent.”[ii] His words were translated to the Ngapuhi dialect of Maori by missionary Henry Williams, a veteran of seventeen years as a missionary. In short – it was all or nothing......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/08/bruce-moon-tale-of-two-worlds.html
“When I use a word”, Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less” ... “The question is ... which is to be master – that’s all.”
-Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking Glass”, 27.12.1871
Well, let us move back just forty years to the petition of thirteen Ngapuhi chiefs to King William IV: “we pray thee to become our friend and the guardian of these islands.”
And so, nine years later, Captain William Hobson arrived in these islands with the Queen’s commission to do so, providing that “the free intelligent consent of the natives, expressed according to their established usages, shall first be obtained.”
In due course, on 5th February 1840, at Waitangi, Hobson presented his proposal to a great assembly of chiefs and others, saying: “Her Majesty ... wishing to do good to the chiefs and people of New Zealand ... has sent me to this place as governor. But, as the law of England gives no civil powers to Her Majesty out of her dominions, her efforts to do you good will be futile unless you consent.”[ii] His words were translated to the Ngapuhi dialect of Maori by missionary Henry Williams, a veteran of seventeen years as a missionary. In short – it was all or nothing......
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2021/08/bruce-moon-tale-of-two-worlds.html