Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 28, 2016 9:26:35 GMT 12
Northland Age 28/4/16
ETHNICITY ANOMALIES
Many Kiwis are Making valid protests about Waitangi Claimants with very slight Maori bloodlines (ethnicity), and looking for a formula on how to address this anomaly. Well here's the solution; it's called the ethnicity equalisation scheme (EFS).
For openers, we must address the quixotic definition of Maori in S.2 Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1974, which most sensible Kiwis consider to be farcical because it seeks to create a statutory Maori race.
If claimants are going to use any level of Maori ethnicity for Waitangi claims etc. then a scheme is required with authenticated certified documents to ensure whakapapa are accurate, with birth certificates, driver's licences and passports etc. endorsed, all showing the degree of ethnicity attributed to claimants. This must be the minimum prerequisite legal requirement prior to obtaining any payments from Waitangi claims. All this actioned at the cost of the claimant.
It follows, when looking at a tribe of say 2000 Members', there must be supporting documentation and evidence for each and every tribal member, with lists made available for public inspection, and then the ethnicity of the whole tribe must be averaged out. Should the perceived grievance claim or any other claim (hard to take seriously) for some reason be successful, and for example assessed at say $32 million, then if the average Maori ethnicity of the tribe is one eighth the payment out would be only $4 million, and the $28 million balance would be withheld, along the same lines as the 'contributory negligence doctrine' to the extent of seven eights representing the ethnicity percentage other than Maori, and funds returned to the New Zealand taxpayer via the government, ie, not paid out Now isn't that a fair and equitable outcome?
Because Kiwis are entitled as of right to know all those who are claiming to be statutory Maori are providing accurate documentary proof, and word of mouth mumbo jumbo is not good enough. If citizens don't want special endorsement there is no need to complete any details, and they will simply receive a normal Kiwi passport without notation - the choice is theirs. Of course other citizens could also choose to apply for the ethnicity endorsement at their own cost. Current assessments indicate no one can claim to have 50 percent Maori ethnicity, and therefore, other than by virtue of the statutory definition, everyone in New Zealand must currently be classified as non-Maori.
R P
Matapihi
DAMNED H OUT!
Dammed h, not to be seen again in Wanganui, Wenua, Waiitiri (southern form) and warn — surveyors spelling in the Wanganui Bush where they were often glad of the shelter of one on a stormy night. Out too with fong or fung the pronunciation of pseudo-educated radio and TV announcers.
Jean Jackson, a friend of mine who features in your columns today, told me that many Maoris, especially women with tattooed lips, couldn't say "L" So the Williams, father and son, transliterated February (the 6th there of, remember) as Pepueri, and they will not have been wrong.
Funny that all our treaty scholars, Orange, Mutu, Salmond, Loveridge etc. etc, have never noticed that.
And while my ink flows freely, please inform your eagle-eyed proof readers that I use the normal English plural Maoris, as everybody did until today's PC mania swept over the country—usage from very early days in the southern heartlands where I come from. Please ask them to desist from changing it.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
INDEPENDENCE DAY (Also published in Southland Times 25/4/16)
Did you know that May 3 is New Zealand’s Independence Day? Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/ Letters Patent dated November 16, 1840 was New Zealand’s true founding document and first constitution as it separated New Zealand from New South Wales dependency on May 3, 1841 and New Zealand became an Independent British Colony with its own governor and constitution to form a legal government under one flag and one law with courts and judged to enforce the law.
While we celebrate the Treaty of Waitangi on February 6 every year, this day only gave sovereignty of New Zealand to Great Britain and tangata Maori the same rights as the people of England under the dependency of New South Wales. Queen Victoria or Lt Governor Hobson did not have the power or authority to give tangata Maori any special rights or privileges in the Treaty of Waitangi not already enjoyed by all the people of England and none were given.
On May 3, 1841 New Zealand became an Independent British Colony under one flag and one law, irrespective of race, colour or creed. While this day was celebrated at the time, it has gone unnoticed ever since. We must once again all celebrate May 3 as our Independence Day. The day New Zealand became an Independent British Colony under one flag and one law, irrespective of race colour or creed.
ROSS BAKER
Researcher One New Zealand Foundation
Palmerston North
ONE BIG MYTH (Also published in Southland Times 26/4/16)
We have been living a lie for the last few hundred years.
There was never a great fleet of canoes that sailed together down from the Pacific Islands bringing hundreds of Maoris to New Zealand.
In The Penguin History Of New Zealand, on page 38, author Michael King referred to the so called 904AD Kupe landing as “The great New Zealand Myth”.
King says the Kupe myth was created by two Europeans and then taught throughout primary schools from 1910 through to the 1970s.
Maori map records show that their historical Kupe sailed into Hokianga harbour in 1325AD not 940AD. Also the Maori book Mataatua, page 6, describes this region as “Hawaiki”, well inside New Zealand waters, that several canoes set sail at different times to establish tribal settlements elsewhere in new Zealand.
The true historical evidence clearly shows that some canoes of the so-called great fleet canoes did not arrive in New Zealand from overseas; they simply sailed down the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand from “Hawaiki”, that is, the Hawaiki located in the upper North Island of New Zealand.
Also, a Professor Howe obtained his research from Maori people who were fully aware that Hawaiki is a name found at the following locations: Hawaiki – Tamaki Auckland; Hawaiki – Maketu northern side of Kawhia Harbour; Hawaiki – Aotea Harbour on the southern side of Aotea harbour. It means simply “a place where we have just arrived, or have just landed’’.
Maxwell C Hill has put out two excellent books on New Zealand’s true history To the ends of the earth and To the ends of the earth and back again.
I B
Wanganui
ETHNICITY ANOMALIES
Many Kiwis are Making valid protests about Waitangi Claimants with very slight Maori bloodlines (ethnicity), and looking for a formula on how to address this anomaly. Well here's the solution; it's called the ethnicity equalisation scheme (EFS).
For openers, we must address the quixotic definition of Maori in S.2 Maori Affairs Amendment Act 1974, which most sensible Kiwis consider to be farcical because it seeks to create a statutory Maori race.
If claimants are going to use any level of Maori ethnicity for Waitangi claims etc. then a scheme is required with authenticated certified documents to ensure whakapapa are accurate, with birth certificates, driver's licences and passports etc. endorsed, all showing the degree of ethnicity attributed to claimants. This must be the minimum prerequisite legal requirement prior to obtaining any payments from Waitangi claims. All this actioned at the cost of the claimant.
It follows, when looking at a tribe of say 2000 Members', there must be supporting documentation and evidence for each and every tribal member, with lists made available for public inspection, and then the ethnicity of the whole tribe must be averaged out. Should the perceived grievance claim or any other claim (hard to take seriously) for some reason be successful, and for example assessed at say $32 million, then if the average Maori ethnicity of the tribe is one eighth the payment out would be only $4 million, and the $28 million balance would be withheld, along the same lines as the 'contributory negligence doctrine' to the extent of seven eights representing the ethnicity percentage other than Maori, and funds returned to the New Zealand taxpayer via the government, ie, not paid out Now isn't that a fair and equitable outcome?
Because Kiwis are entitled as of right to know all those who are claiming to be statutory Maori are providing accurate documentary proof, and word of mouth mumbo jumbo is not good enough. If citizens don't want special endorsement there is no need to complete any details, and they will simply receive a normal Kiwi passport without notation - the choice is theirs. Of course other citizens could also choose to apply for the ethnicity endorsement at their own cost. Current assessments indicate no one can claim to have 50 percent Maori ethnicity, and therefore, other than by virtue of the statutory definition, everyone in New Zealand must currently be classified as non-Maori.
R P
Matapihi
DAMNED H OUT!
Dammed h, not to be seen again in Wanganui, Wenua, Waiitiri (southern form) and warn — surveyors spelling in the Wanganui Bush where they were often glad of the shelter of one on a stormy night. Out too with fong or fung the pronunciation of pseudo-educated radio and TV announcers.
Jean Jackson, a friend of mine who features in your columns today, told me that many Maoris, especially women with tattooed lips, couldn't say "L" So the Williams, father and son, transliterated February (the 6th there of, remember) as Pepueri, and they will not have been wrong.
Funny that all our treaty scholars, Orange, Mutu, Salmond, Loveridge etc. etc, have never noticed that.
And while my ink flows freely, please inform your eagle-eyed proof readers that I use the normal English plural Maoris, as everybody did until today's PC mania swept over the country—usage from very early days in the southern heartlands where I come from. Please ask them to desist from changing it.
BRUCE MOON
Nelson
INDEPENDENCE DAY (Also published in Southland Times 25/4/16)
Did you know that May 3 is New Zealand’s Independence Day? Queen Victoria’s Royal Charter/ Letters Patent dated November 16, 1840 was New Zealand’s true founding document and first constitution as it separated New Zealand from New South Wales dependency on May 3, 1841 and New Zealand became an Independent British Colony with its own governor and constitution to form a legal government under one flag and one law with courts and judged to enforce the law.
While we celebrate the Treaty of Waitangi on February 6 every year, this day only gave sovereignty of New Zealand to Great Britain and tangata Maori the same rights as the people of England under the dependency of New South Wales. Queen Victoria or Lt Governor Hobson did not have the power or authority to give tangata Maori any special rights or privileges in the Treaty of Waitangi not already enjoyed by all the people of England and none were given.
On May 3, 1841 New Zealand became an Independent British Colony under one flag and one law, irrespective of race, colour or creed. While this day was celebrated at the time, it has gone unnoticed ever since. We must once again all celebrate May 3 as our Independence Day. The day New Zealand became an Independent British Colony under one flag and one law, irrespective of race colour or creed.
ROSS BAKER
Researcher One New Zealand Foundation
Palmerston North
ONE BIG MYTH (Also published in Southland Times 26/4/16)
We have been living a lie for the last few hundred years.
There was never a great fleet of canoes that sailed together down from the Pacific Islands bringing hundreds of Maoris to New Zealand.
In The Penguin History Of New Zealand, on page 38, author Michael King referred to the so called 904AD Kupe landing as “The great New Zealand Myth”.
King says the Kupe myth was created by two Europeans and then taught throughout primary schools from 1910 through to the 1970s.
Maori map records show that their historical Kupe sailed into Hokianga harbour in 1325AD not 940AD. Also the Maori book Mataatua, page 6, describes this region as “Hawaiki”, well inside New Zealand waters, that several canoes set sail at different times to establish tribal settlements elsewhere in new Zealand.
The true historical evidence clearly shows that some canoes of the so-called great fleet canoes did not arrive in New Zealand from overseas; they simply sailed down the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand from “Hawaiki”, that is, the Hawaiki located in the upper North Island of New Zealand.
Also, a Professor Howe obtained his research from Maori people who were fully aware that Hawaiki is a name found at the following locations: Hawaiki – Tamaki Auckland; Hawaiki – Maketu northern side of Kawhia Harbour; Hawaiki – Aotea Harbour on the southern side of Aotea harbour. It means simply “a place where we have just arrived, or have just landed’’.
Maxwell C Hill has put out two excellent books on New Zealand’s true history To the ends of the earth and To the ends of the earth and back again.
I B
Wanganui