Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 15, 2024 15:36:08 GMT 12
Roger Childs: MORE NONSENSE FROM THE FORMER KAPITI MAYOR.
Highly inaccurate pro-Maori advocacy penned by Gurunathan for the Stuffers
The previous Kapiti District Mayor has taken up the mantle of Stuffer Joel Maxwell in writing dishonest pro-Maori articles for The Post and other Stuff papers.
“In What Maori need more than their own Parliament is a Maori Economy” (The Post Monday 10 June 2024), Guru promotes Catherine Comyn’s book The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa. - (In pre-colonial times the Natives never had a concept of New Zealand as one nation, and the Maori never had called the country Aotearoa until the late 20th century.)
He tries to draw an analogy between Mahatma Gandhi’s 1930 Salt March and the protest by some hundreds of Maori on Budget Day in Wellington. He fails.
The East India Company (EIC) and from 1858 the British authorities wanted to have a monopoly over salt production and discourage local manufacture which where it happened was heavily taxed. It also discouraged self–sufficiency, Indian industries and promoted colonial exploitation of the local economy. He also maintains that the plight of the poor worsened. He compares the New Zealand Company (NZC) with the EIC, but the NZC was not the government of the country and although the Wakefields did help develop colonies in Wellington, Nelson, Wanganui and New Plymouth, it had limited influence over the Canterbury and Dunedin settlements, and none over other urban developments in Northland, Auckland and elsewhere....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/06/roger-childs-more-nonsense-from-former.html
Highly inaccurate pro-Maori advocacy penned by Gurunathan for the Stuffers
The previous Kapiti District Mayor has taken up the mantle of Stuffer Joel Maxwell in writing dishonest pro-Maori articles for The Post and other Stuff papers.
“In What Maori need more than their own Parliament is a Maori Economy” (The Post Monday 10 June 2024), Guru promotes Catherine Comyn’s book The Financial Colonisation of Aotearoa. - (In pre-colonial times the Natives never had a concept of New Zealand as one nation, and the Maori never had called the country Aotearoa until the late 20th century.)
He tries to draw an analogy between Mahatma Gandhi’s 1930 Salt March and the protest by some hundreds of Maori on Budget Day in Wellington. He fails.
The East India Company (EIC) and from 1858 the British authorities wanted to have a monopoly over salt production and discourage local manufacture which where it happened was heavily taxed. It also discouraged self–sufficiency, Indian industries and promoted colonial exploitation of the local economy. He also maintains that the plight of the poor worsened. He compares the New Zealand Company (NZC) with the EIC, but the NZC was not the government of the country and although the Wakefields did help develop colonies in Wellington, Nelson, Wanganui and New Plymouth, it had limited influence over the Canterbury and Dunedin settlements, and none over other urban developments in Northland, Auckland and elsewhere....
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2024/06/roger-childs-more-nonsense-from-former.html