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Waikato Times 26/2/16
OUTRAGEOUS SPENDING
Professor Paul Moon claims government needs to ‘‘give more money for the Maori language, to ensure it doesn’t disappear’’. The Maori Language Commission has received $11.2 million from the public purse for the current financial year. Moon says that is not nearly enough money for the initiatives set.
Taxpayers spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on te reo. I understand that $1.6 billion (2012-13 year) annually goes into Maori initiatives. Why doesn’t the public purse, which is manipulated by our parliamentary elected representatives, cease their race-based funding?
Do New Zealand citizens know that this country has only two officially legislated languages? Maori and sign language. We are the country that thousands of overseas students pay large amounts of money to come to learn English, and English is not a legislated official language in our own country. How outrageous is that?
Speak to your parliamentary representative and encourage - no, demand - that provision is made for English to be legislated as an official language in New Zealand ASAP.
M J A
Tauranga
Daily Post Rotorua 26/2/16
FEARS JUSTIFIED
Perhaps I can assist Jonathan Temm to understand why some ratepayers have voiced concern at the way in which ‘democracy’ was used to establish the Te Arawa Partnership deal.
Every three years the ratepayers of Rotorua vote for individuals who they believe will ensure that decisions are made in the best interests of everyone, not just one specific group in society.
To then put unelected individuals on to the two main decision making committees of council with full voting rights and at considerable cost to the ratepayers was certainly not known at the time of the last election.
Had this been known I would venture that the voting patterns would have been different and that would have been a true example of democracy at work.
J D
Rotorua
Waikato Times 26/2/16
OUTRAGEOUS SPENDING
Professor Paul Moon claims government needs to ‘‘give more money for the Maori language, to ensure it doesn’t disappear’’. The Maori Language Commission has received $11.2 million from the public purse for the current financial year. Moon says that is not nearly enough money for the initiatives set.
Taxpayers spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on te reo. I understand that $1.6 billion (2012-13 year) annually goes into Maori initiatives. Why doesn’t the public purse, which is manipulated by our parliamentary elected representatives, cease their race-based funding?
Do New Zealand citizens know that this country has only two officially legislated languages? Maori and sign language. We are the country that thousands of overseas students pay large amounts of money to come to learn English, and English is not a legislated official language in our own country. How outrageous is that?
Speak to your parliamentary representative and encourage - no, demand - that provision is made for English to be legislated as an official language in New Zealand ASAP.
M J A
Tauranga
Daily Post Rotorua 26/2/16
FEARS JUSTIFIED
Perhaps I can assist Jonathan Temm to understand why some ratepayers have voiced concern at the way in which ‘democracy’ was used to establish the Te Arawa Partnership deal.
Every three years the ratepayers of Rotorua vote for individuals who they believe will ensure that decisions are made in the best interests of everyone, not just one specific group in society.
To then put unelected individuals on to the two main decision making committees of council with full voting rights and at considerable cost to the ratepayers was certainly not known at the time of the last election.
Had this been known I would venture that the voting patterns would have been different and that would have been a true example of democracy at work.
J D
Rotorua
