Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 15, 2016 6:09:58 GMT 12
Bay of Plenty Times 15/4/16
GREAT COMMON SENSE ATTITUDE
The letter from Nichola Edwards (Letters, April 14) who, while being of Maori decent herself, maintained that no special treatment was required to get elected is a winner, and with an attitude like that you would get my vote Nichola.
The reality is that Nichola probably won’t stand for election because she has far too much common sense and if I have learnt one thing over the years of voting at both local and national level is that common sense is an attribute of sparse quantity in the makeup of most of those elected which probably doesn’t say a lot about those of us who bother to vote, myself included.
B W B
Tauranga
VIEW A TONIC
Nichola Edwards (Letters, April 14) — you are a tonic!
Thank heavens for people like you.
A common sense lady who wants us all to be simply Kiwis.
This issue of Maori seats on councils raises its head every so often.
Our council has refused to entertain the idea and rightly so.
As is already stated by Tauranga City Council, there is already adequate Maori representation on the Tangata Whenua Committee, the Wastewater Management Committee and various working groups.
I am sure that most Maori feel as you do, that we are all New Zealanders, each with our own proud culture, and I applaud you for your stance.
You are an antidote to the actions of radical Maori, who twist the Treaty to suit their separatist agenda.
Thank you Nichola, you have brightened up my day no end.
R B
Tauranga
MAORI WARD
Ratepayers should have a say if there should be a Maori ward (News, April 12) as they are the ones footing the bill.
It’s bad enough that council can do as they like and spend as they like regardless of what ratepayers say let alone have no say on who should be on the council, Maori are on several committees now.
People need to work for their position and get the votes like everyone else. It shouldn’t be handed to people for nothing.
J D
Tauranga
Waikato Times 15/4/16
MAORI WARDS
Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell, at the urging of New Plymouth Mayor Andrew Judd, will present a petition to legislate for the creation of Maori wards on every local council.
A referendum was held and more than 80 per cent of New Plymouth ratepayers voted against Mayor Judd’s proposal to establish a Maori ward on the New Plymouth council. Now he is lobbying central government.
The establishment of a Maori ward would be separatist and will not ‘‘better reflect the make-up of the community’’, as Mr Flavel quoted.
Mayor Judd is not representing the majority of the ratepayers’ views.
P V P
Hamilton
MORE FOCUS ON CHILDREN
Anne Tolley is now attempting to heal a social experiment that has failed miserably. Over the past 40 years, the New Zealand taxpayer has poured billions of dollars into all things Maori without any idea as to what all that money has produced.
A panel of experts finds that 35 per cent of all Maori children, but only 11 per cent of non-Maori children, came to the notice of CYFs in their first five years.
Once again, tribal elite within institutions, universities, charitable trusts, Maori corporations, etc, are doing well financially while the whanau at the other end of the ladder are deprived of the basics needed to grow healthy, happy children. A job, home, warm clothes, a full belly, appropriate reading material, someone to teach them morals and ethics and most importantly, lots of love and attention.
This is not the fault of politicians – they are not responsible for how our young fry turn out. It is 100 per cent the fault of the parents, families/whanau and the community at large.
So, yet again, more money will be thrown at the lost cause because those responsible for the deprivation will not uplift their obligations to raise their children correctly.
M J A
Tauranga
Wairarapa Times-Age 15/4/16 (Text your thoughts section)
■ re Maori wanting special wards on local councils How about Maori becoming NZers and stop all this special things just for them. It's getting be-yond a joke. How about one law for all seems to work elsewhere
■ hey Mick L, so Maori were all pasifists and peaceful protesters yeah right. you state we need to foot the bill for what we all owe. owe what? how come all Maori settlements get back to money they haven't earned. until this country drops the owe me mentality this country will be forever hamstrung. my ancestors owe nought they helped build this country paid our taxes for your settlements for millennia.
Christchurch Press 15/4/16 (In a few words section)
GREED BEHIND ATTACK
Shame on [Tipene] o Regan and his Maori mates attacking Nick Smith for trying to save part of the ocean from human greed. They are using the Waitangi Tribunal industry to try to enable their plundering of this area. Maori are not the conservationists politically correct Pakeha academics would have us believe. Their history is one of slaughter, annihilation. slavery, cannibalism and squandering of resources. Much like the English.
R W
Ferrymead
Dominion Post 15/4/16 (To the point section)
WHAT HAPPENED TO KAITIAKITANGA?
The iwi leaders' legal move on the Kermadec marine reserve proposal is troubling. I understand and fully support Maori resistance to the erosion of their rights, which has been demonstrated repeatedly by successive governments, but there is a longer-term issue here. which is the protection of the sea and marine life for future generations. Doesn't kaitiakitanga outweigh any possible future resource plunder?
L W
Kelburn
GREAT COMMON SENSE ATTITUDE
The letter from Nichola Edwards (Letters, April 14) who, while being of Maori decent herself, maintained that no special treatment was required to get elected is a winner, and with an attitude like that you would get my vote Nichola.
The reality is that Nichola probably won’t stand for election because she has far too much common sense and if I have learnt one thing over the years of voting at both local and national level is that common sense is an attribute of sparse quantity in the makeup of most of those elected which probably doesn’t say a lot about those of us who bother to vote, myself included.
B W B
Tauranga
VIEW A TONIC
Nichola Edwards (Letters, April 14) — you are a tonic!
Thank heavens for people like you.
A common sense lady who wants us all to be simply Kiwis.
This issue of Maori seats on councils raises its head every so often.
Our council has refused to entertain the idea and rightly so.
As is already stated by Tauranga City Council, there is already adequate Maori representation on the Tangata Whenua Committee, the Wastewater Management Committee and various working groups.
I am sure that most Maori feel as you do, that we are all New Zealanders, each with our own proud culture, and I applaud you for your stance.
You are an antidote to the actions of radical Maori, who twist the Treaty to suit their separatist agenda.
Thank you Nichola, you have brightened up my day no end.
R B
Tauranga
MAORI WARD
Ratepayers should have a say if there should be a Maori ward (News, April 12) as they are the ones footing the bill.
It’s bad enough that council can do as they like and spend as they like regardless of what ratepayers say let alone have no say on who should be on the council, Maori are on several committees now.
People need to work for their position and get the votes like everyone else. It shouldn’t be handed to people for nothing.
J D
Tauranga
Waikato Times 15/4/16
MAORI WARDS
Maori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell, at the urging of New Plymouth Mayor Andrew Judd, will present a petition to legislate for the creation of Maori wards on every local council.
A referendum was held and more than 80 per cent of New Plymouth ratepayers voted against Mayor Judd’s proposal to establish a Maori ward on the New Plymouth council. Now he is lobbying central government.
The establishment of a Maori ward would be separatist and will not ‘‘better reflect the make-up of the community’’, as Mr Flavel quoted.
Mayor Judd is not representing the majority of the ratepayers’ views.
P V P
Hamilton
MORE FOCUS ON CHILDREN
Anne Tolley is now attempting to heal a social experiment that has failed miserably. Over the past 40 years, the New Zealand taxpayer has poured billions of dollars into all things Maori without any idea as to what all that money has produced.
A panel of experts finds that 35 per cent of all Maori children, but only 11 per cent of non-Maori children, came to the notice of CYFs in their first five years.
Once again, tribal elite within institutions, universities, charitable trusts, Maori corporations, etc, are doing well financially while the whanau at the other end of the ladder are deprived of the basics needed to grow healthy, happy children. A job, home, warm clothes, a full belly, appropriate reading material, someone to teach them morals and ethics and most importantly, lots of love and attention.
This is not the fault of politicians – they are not responsible for how our young fry turn out. It is 100 per cent the fault of the parents, families/whanau and the community at large.
So, yet again, more money will be thrown at the lost cause because those responsible for the deprivation will not uplift their obligations to raise their children correctly.
M J A
Tauranga
Wairarapa Times-Age 15/4/16 (Text your thoughts section)
■ re Maori wanting special wards on local councils How about Maori becoming NZers and stop all this special things just for them. It's getting be-yond a joke. How about one law for all seems to work elsewhere
■ hey Mick L, so Maori were all pasifists and peaceful protesters yeah right. you state we need to foot the bill for what we all owe. owe what? how come all Maori settlements get back to money they haven't earned. until this country drops the owe me mentality this country will be forever hamstrung. my ancestors owe nought they helped build this country paid our taxes for your settlements for millennia.
Christchurch Press 15/4/16 (In a few words section)
GREED BEHIND ATTACK
Shame on [Tipene] o Regan and his Maori mates attacking Nick Smith for trying to save part of the ocean from human greed. They are using the Waitangi Tribunal industry to try to enable their plundering of this area. Maori are not the conservationists politically correct Pakeha academics would have us believe. Their history is one of slaughter, annihilation. slavery, cannibalism and squandering of resources. Much like the English.
R W
Ferrymead
Dominion Post 15/4/16 (To the point section)
WHAT HAPPENED TO KAITIAKITANGA?
The iwi leaders' legal move on the Kermadec marine reserve proposal is troubling. I understand and fully support Maori resistance to the erosion of their rights, which has been demonstrated repeatedly by successive governments, but there is a longer-term issue here. which is the protection of the sea and marine life for future generations. Doesn't kaitiakitanga outweigh any possible future resource plunder?
L W
Kelburn