Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 6, 2019 5:36:37 GMT 12
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Press 2/1/19)
Gerry Mitten ('Press", 1/1/19) "wonders why", living in Nelson, I have any interest in Christchurch affairs.
Let me inform him. Christchurch is my birthplace; my parents and paternal grandparents all lived and died there.
It was my home for 56 years; I brought up a family there and three of them and my late wife graduated from Canterbury University.
I was critically injured in the 2011 earthquake and evacuated to Nelson by Life Flight aircraft three weeks later when it was safe to do so.
Nevertheless, as no friend of political correctness, I deplore the behaviour of the Christchurch City Council, so besotted with all things Maori, that it takes the idiotic step of giving its new library a Maori name.when libraries are purely a part of our European heritage. It is as bad - and likely to be more lasting - than Nelson having a Maori man usurp the role of Santa Claus
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
Dear Editor, (Sent to The Press 31/12/18)
The difference between the end of the Stone Age amongst our European forebears and Maoris which Katherine Gillard (Press, 31/12/18) should appreciate is that in our case it ceased around 4500 years ago - varying somewhat from place to place - and for the latter a mere 200 years ago. In the Maori case, it was entirely due to the efforts of Europeans and they would have remained in a state of Stone Age isolation had enterprising Europeans not found these islands not long beforehand. Pretending that there is any real association between a library and anything from Maori culture is fatuous nonsense.
Again, the benevolent Santa Claus in his jolly red robe is a feature of European culture which has spread around the world and for Gillard to suggest the artificiality "Mere Kirihimere" instead of "Merry Christmas" is to contrive yet more irrelevant nonsense.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
Gerry Mitten ('Press", 1/1/19) "wonders why", living in Nelson, I have any interest in Christchurch affairs.
Let me inform him. Christchurch is my birthplace; my parents and paternal grandparents all lived and died there.
It was my home for 56 years; I brought up a family there and three of them and my late wife graduated from Canterbury University.
I was critically injured in the 2011 earthquake and evacuated to Nelson by Life Flight aircraft three weeks later when it was safe to do so.
Nevertheless, as no friend of political correctness, I deplore the behaviour of the Christchurch City Council, so besotted with all things Maori, that it takes the idiotic step of giving its new library a Maori name.when libraries are purely a part of our European heritage. It is as bad - and likely to be more lasting - than Nelson having a Maori man usurp the role of Santa Claus
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
Dear Editor, (Sent to The Press 31/12/18)
The difference between the end of the Stone Age amongst our European forebears and Maoris which Katherine Gillard (Press, 31/12/18) should appreciate is that in our case it ceased around 4500 years ago - varying somewhat from place to place - and for the latter a mere 200 years ago. In the Maori case, it was entirely due to the efforts of Europeans and they would have remained in a state of Stone Age isolation had enterprising Europeans not found these islands not long beforehand. Pretending that there is any real association between a library and anything from Maori culture is fatuous nonsense.
Again, the benevolent Santa Claus in his jolly red robe is a feature of European culture which has spread around the world and for Gillard to suggest the artificiality "Mere Kirihimere" instead of "Merry Christmas" is to contrive yet more irrelevant nonsense.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters