Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 26, 2018 8:38:59 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Wanganui Chronicle 13/12/18)
Re Front page of the Chronicle Tuesday Dec 13th “Mayor slams leaker of treaty document”, is it because he doesn’t want the people of Wanganui to know the truth.
The sale of old Wanganui by May 24th 1848 nearly eight years of waiting, arrangements were so far completed between Mr McLean and the natives that a draft deed was drawn up relating to the absolute sale of the district.
All though our canoe is large and has many in it yet all are of the same mind.
Let no one attempt to infringe upon the lands now about to be sold to the Europeans.
The land is now married to the white man; let them take it, and let the natives remember; if they now intrude it will be a breach of the Seventh Commandment.
Pg 320: The block sold contained 80,000 acres for which the magnificent sum of 1000 pounds was paid.
Listen all people who see or know of this paper giving up or parting with land. Now, we, the people of “Wanganui,: of Wangaehu,” of “Kai iwi,” consent on behalf of ourselves, our relatives, children, and all who may be descended of us or succeed us, to entirely give up all our lands within the boundaries hereinafter written,
Maori never owned the land as they took it off the ancient people who were here before them. This new land claim should not proceed.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
Dear Sir, (Sent to the Sunday Star-Times 12/12/18)
In her article pertaining to the Treaty of Waitangi, History teacher Clementine Fraser makes many interesting observations which are ably answered by Alan Richards.
One point that I would take up with her is: What if Maori weren’t the first people in New Zealand?
Firstly – all credible evidence points to the fact that they were...” Where does she get her “credible evidence” from, that august body, the Waitangi Tribunal?
Has she heard of the Jesus watch, the glyphs on rocks at Raglan, the cave drawings in Canterbury and Otago?
Has she heard about the leader of the Patupaiarehe people, who were here 1000 years before Maori, who stood to address the Waitangi Tribunal and was told to shut up and sit down because she was extinct? Possibily not!
“I believe everyone in New Zealand should know about, and engage in discussion around, the Treaty. It’s interesting, it’s necessary, it’s ours,” Clementine states. I agree. Let us have a television debate!
KEVAN G. MARKS, Kaipara.
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
Re Front page of the Chronicle Tuesday Dec 13th “Mayor slams leaker of treaty document”, is it because he doesn’t want the people of Wanganui to know the truth.
The sale of old Wanganui by May 24th 1848 nearly eight years of waiting, arrangements were so far completed between Mr McLean and the natives that a draft deed was drawn up relating to the absolute sale of the district.
All though our canoe is large and has many in it yet all are of the same mind.
Let no one attempt to infringe upon the lands now about to be sold to the Europeans.
The land is now married to the white man; let them take it, and let the natives remember; if they now intrude it will be a breach of the Seventh Commandment.
Pg 320: The block sold contained 80,000 acres for which the magnificent sum of 1000 pounds was paid.
Listen all people who see or know of this paper giving up or parting with land. Now, we, the people of “Wanganui,: of Wangaehu,” of “Kai iwi,” consent on behalf of ourselves, our relatives, children, and all who may be descended of us or succeed us, to entirely give up all our lands within the boundaries hereinafter written,
Maori never owned the land as they took it off the ancient people who were here before them. This new land claim should not proceed.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
Dear Sir, (Sent to the Sunday Star-Times 12/12/18)
In her article pertaining to the Treaty of Waitangi, History teacher Clementine Fraser makes many interesting observations which are ably answered by Alan Richards.
One point that I would take up with her is: What if Maori weren’t the first people in New Zealand?
Firstly – all credible evidence points to the fact that they were...” Where does she get her “credible evidence” from, that august body, the Waitangi Tribunal?
Has she heard of the Jesus watch, the glyphs on rocks at Raglan, the cave drawings in Canterbury and Otago?
Has she heard about the leader of the Patupaiarehe people, who were here 1000 years before Maori, who stood to address the Waitangi Tribunal and was told to shut up and sit down because she was extinct? Possibily not!
“I believe everyone in New Zealand should know about, and engage in discussion around, the Treaty. It’s interesting, it’s necessary, it’s ours,” Clementine states. I agree. Let us have a television debate!
KEVAN G. MARKS, Kaipara.
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters