Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 18, 2016 6:12:59 GMT 12
The New Zealand Herald 18/4/16 (Short & Sweet section)
ON WATER
* Lizzie Marvelly should realise that the Government, with the Maori Party, already pays royalty for fresh water with more royalty payments to come.
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Te Awamutu.
* The “racist rhetoric” Lizzie Marvelly claims she abhors is not coming from those who stand for equality of citizenship and democracy, but rather those promoting special rights and privileges regarding fresh water. The Government should not give control to vested interests at the expense of the community. This is the path to separatism and racial disharmony.
R P
Tauranga.
* Over 90 per cent of rainfall is produced by evaporation from the oceans. The world spins on its axis, and produces weather patterns that arrive at New Zealand carrying rain. That rain falls, evaporates or runs back into the sea, and the process repeats itself. Every country in the Southern Hemisphere shares this. For Maori to claim any ownership or control of this water is naive. The rain falls evenly on all New Zealanders.
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Glendowie.
The New Zealand Herald 18/4/16
MARVELLY HOLDS NO WATER
The water debate is for everyone except those who criticise a tribal claim for ownership of water, according to columnist Lizzie Marvelly (April 16).
Marvelly may not know that the Fresh Water Iwi Leaders Group wants a $1 billion "capacity building" fund plus tribal ownership of fresh water, ownership of all Crown-owned river and lake beds, and of the water column. The Fresh Water Iwi Leaders Group took this position around the country last year for tribal ratification.
Marvelly writes "Maori have rights and interests in land and water until they voluntarily decide to gift, sell or assign them". She may not be aware that New Zealand 19th century land sale deeds show that chiefs sold the water along with the land.
The current claim for tribal ownership of water goes back to 2012 when the Government prepared to sell 49 per cent of State-owned electricity generators. The Government declared no one owns fresh water.
"Disaffected former politicians" have noticed that the tribal claim for ownership of fresh water has been included in the "Next Steps for Fresh Water" consultation and are quite rightly drawing the public's attention to it.
MIKE BUTLER
Hastings.
Bay of Plenty Times 18/4/16
NAME BOWS TO MAORI INTERESTS
I am gobsmacked over the pathetic explanation given by the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic for their name change to the difficult “Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology”.
The reason given is that “polytechnic” has a slightly different meaning overseas so “institute of technology” works better for an international market.
The more than obvious name would be Bay of Plenty Institute of Technology. The location is crystal-clear and so is the clearly-defined type of education.
The name change will have those of the international market checking the spelling of this unpronounceable name every time they use it.
We all know that his has absolutely nothing to do with the market and everything to do with bowing down to Maori interests.
I also query why this newspaper referred to Mayor Island as Tuhua (Mayor Island) — when did that happen?
The general public are so fed up with Maori-everything in our faces every time we open a newspaper, turn on the radio/television — or attend an institute of technology.
R B
Tauranga
ON WATER
* Lizzie Marvelly should realise that the Government, with the Maori Party, already pays royalty for fresh water with more royalty payments to come.
R B
Te Awamutu.
* The “racist rhetoric” Lizzie Marvelly claims she abhors is not coming from those who stand for equality of citizenship and democracy, but rather those promoting special rights and privileges regarding fresh water. The Government should not give control to vested interests at the expense of the community. This is the path to separatism and racial disharmony.
R P
Tauranga.
* Over 90 per cent of rainfall is produced by evaporation from the oceans. The world spins on its axis, and produces weather patterns that arrive at New Zealand carrying rain. That rain falls, evaporates or runs back into the sea, and the process repeats itself. Every country in the Southern Hemisphere shares this. For Maori to claim any ownership or control of this water is naive. The rain falls evenly on all New Zealanders.
A E
Glendowie.
The New Zealand Herald 18/4/16
MARVELLY HOLDS NO WATER
The water debate is for everyone except those who criticise a tribal claim for ownership of water, according to columnist Lizzie Marvelly (April 16).
Marvelly may not know that the Fresh Water Iwi Leaders Group wants a $1 billion "capacity building" fund plus tribal ownership of fresh water, ownership of all Crown-owned river and lake beds, and of the water column. The Fresh Water Iwi Leaders Group took this position around the country last year for tribal ratification.
Marvelly writes "Maori have rights and interests in land and water until they voluntarily decide to gift, sell or assign them". She may not be aware that New Zealand 19th century land sale deeds show that chiefs sold the water along with the land.
The current claim for tribal ownership of water goes back to 2012 when the Government prepared to sell 49 per cent of State-owned electricity generators. The Government declared no one owns fresh water.
"Disaffected former politicians" have noticed that the tribal claim for ownership of fresh water has been included in the "Next Steps for Fresh Water" consultation and are quite rightly drawing the public's attention to it.
MIKE BUTLER
Hastings.
Bay of Plenty Times 18/4/16
NAME BOWS TO MAORI INTERESTS
I am gobsmacked over the pathetic explanation given by the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic for their name change to the difficult “Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology”.
The reason given is that “polytechnic” has a slightly different meaning overseas so “institute of technology” works better for an international market.
The more than obvious name would be Bay of Plenty Institute of Technology. The location is crystal-clear and so is the clearly-defined type of education.
The name change will have those of the international market checking the spelling of this unpronounceable name every time they use it.
We all know that his has absolutely nothing to do with the market and everything to do with bowing down to Maori interests.
I also query why this newspaper referred to Mayor Island as Tuhua (Mayor Island) — when did that happen?
The general public are so fed up with Maori-everything in our faces every time we open a newspaper, turn on the radio/television — or attend an institute of technology.
R B
Tauranga