Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 2, 2016 6:02:53 GMT 12
The New Zealand Herald 2/5/16
MAY 3 IS NZ’S REAL BIRTHDAY
Did you know that tomorrow, 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 the New South Wales dependency on May 3,1841.
That is the day New Zealand became an independent British colony with its own governor and constitution, a legal government under one flag and one law with courts 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 that were not already enjoyed by all the people of England, and none were given.
ROSS BAKER,
Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc
Wanganui Chronicle 2/5/16
COMMON GOOD
Your correspondent Louise Barnicoat is upset because she received a newsletter from MP Chester Borrows about Anzac Day in which Maori were not specifically mentioned. I feel that it was distributed by your MP to the general population of the area and that, as Maori are part of that general population, it has reached you all.
The Anzacs who fought together did it for the common good of our country and race did not play a part at all. I am sure that, at your actual celebration on Anzac Day, Maori would have been appropriately honoured.
It saddens me when I read that Maori are demanding that they be acknowledged additionally as if they are a separate people. We are all New Zealanders, and I hope we all continue to see ourselves that way and that no more division is created than is necessary. (Abridged.)
R B
Tauranga
Hawkes Bay Today 2/5/16
ALL IMMIGRANTS
Does Horiana Robin not understand the meaning of the word indigenous? Indigenous = born, growing or originating in the locality, not imported. Maoris 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
MAY 3 IS NZ’S REAL BIRTHDAY
Did you know that tomorrow, 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 the New South Wales dependency on May 3,1841.
That is the day New Zealand became an independent British colony with its own governor and constitution, a legal government under one flag and one law with courts 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 that were not already enjoyed by all the people of England, and none were given.
ROSS BAKER,
Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc
Wanganui Chronicle 2/5/16
COMMON GOOD
Your correspondent Louise Barnicoat is upset because she received a newsletter from MP Chester Borrows about Anzac Day in which Maori were not specifically mentioned. I feel that it was distributed by your MP to the general population of the area and that, as Maori are part of that general population, it has reached you all.
The Anzacs who fought together did it for the common good of our country and race did not play a part at all. I am sure that, at your actual celebration on Anzac Day, Maori would have been appropriately honoured.
It saddens me when I read that Maori are demanding that they be acknowledged additionally as if they are a separate people. We are all New Zealanders, and I hope we all continue to see ourselves that way and that no more division is created than is necessary. (Abridged.)
R B
Tauranga
Hawkes Bay Today 2/5/16
ALL IMMIGRANTS
Does Horiana Robin not understand the meaning of the word indigenous? Indigenous = born, growing or originating in the locality, not imported. Maoris 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