Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 26, 2024 5:49:57 GMT 12
COUNCILOR SLAMS MOVE TO GIVE MĀORI NAMES TO PUBLIC PLACES, BUS STATIONS
Efforts to give Māori names to numerous local public places as well as bus stations and structures that are part of the Eastern Busway are being criticised as unnecessary virtue signaling.
“This is just sticking it up the nostrils of the voters out here for no reason and it doesn’t benefit anybody,” Howick ward councilor Maurice Williamson says.
“It’s virtue signaling. I don’t believe that anybody sitting at a table in Waitangi in 1840 was saying, ‘I hope this Treaty applies to naming bus stops and tag-on and tag-off sites’.
“Let’s be sensible, let’s do things that make a difference.....
www.times.co.nz/news/councilor-slams-move-to-give-maori-names-to-public-places-bus-stations/
Efforts to give Māori names to numerous local public places as well as bus stations and structures that are part of the Eastern Busway are being criticised as unnecessary virtue signaling.
“This is just sticking it up the nostrils of the voters out here for no reason and it doesn’t benefit anybody,” Howick ward councilor Maurice Williamson says.
“It’s virtue signaling. I don’t believe that anybody sitting at a table in Waitangi in 1840 was saying, ‘I hope this Treaty applies to naming bus stops and tag-on and tag-off sites’.
“Let’s be sensible, let’s do things that make a difference.....
www.times.co.nz/news/councilor-slams-move-to-give-maori-names-to-public-places-bus-stations/