Post by Kiwi Frontline on Aug 6, 2017 6:14:12 GMT 12
Dear Sir, (Sent to the Northern Advocate 21/7/17)
Waitangi Day has been celebrated on February 6, for 77 years as we are “now one people”. Since when? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to celebrate this for a change?
We are now to “celebrate” the so-called Land Wars on October 26 this year, thanks to a $4 million handout by the Government, and the blessing of MP Te Ururoa Flavell, for the next 4 years. Did the Government of the day write down the reasons for these wars, and are these letters still in existence? If not, why not?
Let us celebrate the ceasing of cannabilism, slavery and warfare (the musket wars) which killed some 2000 Maori, 1000 peacekeeping soldiers and friendly Maori, and 40,000 Maori, wiped out by (wait for it) Maori!
Anna Broad (Northern Advocate, July 17, among much else), states that the Government needs to honour the peacekeeping of the soldiers. They won’t, because that is what has kept the National Government in power for the past 9 years.
Leo Leitch (Northern Advocate) states that we should change Waitangi Day back to New Zealand Day.
I have challenged our historians, archaeologists, Members of Parliament, and the Race Relations Commissioner, Dame Susan Devoy, to delve into our true history. So far, I have had no takers!
I move that we scrap Waitangi Day and the Land Wars Day, and celebrate New Zealand Independence Day on November 16, the day Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter gave us our independence from the New South Wales Government in 1840. Do I have a seconder?
KEVAN G. MARKS, Kaipara.
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
Waitangi Day has been celebrated on February 6, for 77 years as we are “now one people”. Since when? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to celebrate this for a change?
We are now to “celebrate” the so-called Land Wars on October 26 this year, thanks to a $4 million handout by the Government, and the blessing of MP Te Ururoa Flavell, for the next 4 years. Did the Government of the day write down the reasons for these wars, and are these letters still in existence? If not, why not?
Let us celebrate the ceasing of cannabilism, slavery and warfare (the musket wars) which killed some 2000 Maori, 1000 peacekeeping soldiers and friendly Maori, and 40,000 Maori, wiped out by (wait for it) Maori!
Anna Broad (Northern Advocate, July 17, among much else), states that the Government needs to honour the peacekeeping of the soldiers. They won’t, because that is what has kept the National Government in power for the past 9 years.
Leo Leitch (Northern Advocate) states that we should change Waitangi Day back to New Zealand Day.
I have challenged our historians, archaeologists, Members of Parliament, and the Race Relations Commissioner, Dame Susan Devoy, to delve into our true history. So far, I have had no takers!
I move that we scrap Waitangi Day and the Land Wars Day, and celebrate New Zealand Independence Day on November 16, the day Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter gave us our independence from the New South Wales Government in 1840. Do I have a seconder?
KEVAN G. MARKS, Kaipara.
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters