Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 25, 2016 7:29:37 GMT 12
Wanganui Chronicle 25/4/16
DEMOCRACY FAILS
My question, put to Winston Peters at a Grey Power meeting, was: "If in government, will you make referendums binding in New Zealand? Under Michael Laws, 75 per cent of Wanganui voted against putting 'h' in our name, yet mayor Main's iwi and the Geographic Board foisted it on our city. That is not democratic."
He answered by letter: "The referendum you refer to was initiated by the council to ask the people, so it should have been designated as a binding referendum. There is no point in such referendums unless they are binding. In Wanganui's case, the local people spoke but the Wellington-based Geographic Board went ahead and ignored them. Worse still, a pan-Maori answer was applied to a local Maori dialect which had never used the 'H' in their pronunciation of Wanganui. For example, when did you ever hear of Tariana Turia using the 'H' in Wanganui?" The Treaty was signed with-out the "h".
K S
Gonville
Hawkes Bay Today 25/4/16
ALL IN SAME BOAT
Does Horiana Robin not understand the meaning of the word indigenous? Indigenous = born, growing or originating in the locality, not imported.
Maori sailed from Hawaiki to New Zealand about 1250AD in five canoes, arriving only about 400 years before British colonists. Therefore, nobody in New Zealand is indigenous. We are all immigrants!
J. S
Hastings
DEMOCRACY FAILS
My question, put to Winston Peters at a Grey Power meeting, was: "If in government, will you make referendums binding in New Zealand? Under Michael Laws, 75 per cent of Wanganui voted against putting 'h' in our name, yet mayor Main's iwi and the Geographic Board foisted it on our city. That is not democratic."
He answered by letter: "The referendum you refer to was initiated by the council to ask the people, so it should have been designated as a binding referendum. There is no point in such referendums unless they are binding. In Wanganui's case, the local people spoke but the Wellington-based Geographic Board went ahead and ignored them. Worse still, a pan-Maori answer was applied to a local Maori dialect which had never used the 'H' in their pronunciation of Wanganui. For example, when did you ever hear of Tariana Turia using the 'H' in Wanganui?" The Treaty was signed with-out the "h".
K S
Gonville
Hawkes Bay Today 25/4/16
ALL IN SAME BOAT
Does Horiana Robin not understand the meaning of the word indigenous? Indigenous = born, growing or originating in the locality, not imported.
Maori sailed from Hawaiki to New Zealand about 1250AD in five canoes, arriving only about 400 years before British colonists. Therefore, nobody in New Zealand is indigenous. We are all immigrants!
J. S
Hastings