Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jul 21, 2017 6:30:00 GMT 12
The Editor (Sent to the Weekend Sun 9/7/17
RODENT DEODORANT
These days roll-on deodorants often tend to be sold in nondescript dispensers and it looks like there is great potential for reformatting the local deodorant dispensers to appeal to the masses along the lines of a recent UK initiative.
Rodent Deodorant would use roll-on bottles designed to resemble various urban woodland and bush creatures like rodents and mustelids such as rats (kiore), weasels, ferrets, hamsters and stoats. The roller ball (the point where the deodorant hits the skin) would represent the nose end of the pest with the dispenser shaped like the creature in question to give realism.
There seems little doubt that these deodorants could prove to be a huge success, built around the catchphrase "smell a rat? then use Rodent Deodorant!"
Trust me, this product may have real potential and will be warmly embraced by those Kiwis (the so called irrelevant majority) disaffected by current Government ,Local Bodies and Quangos hi-jinks/antics/rorts, potentially feeling a lot better after expressing and sanatizing themselves in the manner aforesaid.
Using Rodent Deodorant would be a symbolic gesture to themselves along the lines of 'The Empire Strikes Back' and a timely pungent wake up call all is not kosher in the various political arenas.
ROB PATERSON, Matapihi
Dear Editor (Sent to the Taranaki Daily News 6/7/17)
I will stick to the facts rather than attempt to shut down free speech as Peter Moeahu does (letters 6/7/17), nor will I denigrate those holding different points of view as the Taranaki Daily News did in the titling of the same letter.
The only relationship referred to in the Treaty between Crown and Maori was in Article 2; it covered the selling of Maori land to the Crown only, to protect Maori vendors. Any other relationship has been created by revisionists.
The Treaty agreed that all people living in this land would have the same rights as British citizens. It certainly didn’t create separate rights for tribes, such as unelected and unacccountable representation in local governments.
One has to thank Moeahu for highlighting the fact that only Maori has an alternative way of holding governments to account, other than via general elections. It’s a pity that this power is only used for tribal-based advantage through the extremely biased Waitangi Tribunal.
If Whangarei were to aspire to the same racism in local government as New Plymouth, it would be a sad day for Northland and democracy. I understand 83% of New Plymouth voters rejected this ‘fabulous level’ of racism in 2015.
A binding nationwide referendum on separatist Maori wards and corruptible race-based appointments is well over due.
GEOFF PARKER, Whangarei
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
RODENT DEODORANT
These days roll-on deodorants often tend to be sold in nondescript dispensers and it looks like there is great potential for reformatting the local deodorant dispensers to appeal to the masses along the lines of a recent UK initiative.
Rodent Deodorant would use roll-on bottles designed to resemble various urban woodland and bush creatures like rodents and mustelids such as rats (kiore), weasels, ferrets, hamsters and stoats. The roller ball (the point where the deodorant hits the skin) would represent the nose end of the pest with the dispenser shaped like the creature in question to give realism.
There seems little doubt that these deodorants could prove to be a huge success, built around the catchphrase "smell a rat? then use Rodent Deodorant!"
Trust me, this product may have real potential and will be warmly embraced by those Kiwis (the so called irrelevant majority) disaffected by current Government ,Local Bodies and Quangos hi-jinks/antics/rorts, potentially feeling a lot better after expressing and sanatizing themselves in the manner aforesaid.
Using Rodent Deodorant would be a symbolic gesture to themselves along the lines of 'The Empire Strikes Back' and a timely pungent wake up call all is not kosher in the various political arenas.
ROB PATERSON, Matapihi
Dear Editor (Sent to the Taranaki Daily News 6/7/17)
I will stick to the facts rather than attempt to shut down free speech as Peter Moeahu does (letters 6/7/17), nor will I denigrate those holding different points of view as the Taranaki Daily News did in the titling of the same letter.
The only relationship referred to in the Treaty between Crown and Maori was in Article 2; it covered the selling of Maori land to the Crown only, to protect Maori vendors. Any other relationship has been created by revisionists.
The Treaty agreed that all people living in this land would have the same rights as British citizens. It certainly didn’t create separate rights for tribes, such as unelected and unacccountable representation in local governments.
One has to thank Moeahu for highlighting the fact that only Maori has an alternative way of holding governments to account, other than via general elections. It’s a pity that this power is only used for tribal-based advantage through the extremely biased Waitangi Tribunal.
If Whangarei were to aspire to the same racism in local government as New Plymouth, it would be a sad day for Northland and democracy. I understand 83% of New Plymouth voters rejected this ‘fabulous level’ of racism in 2015.
A binding nationwide referendum on separatist Maori wards and corruptible race-based appointments is well over due.
GEOFF PARKER, Whangarei
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters