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9/5/16
May 9, 2016 7:59:12 GMT 12
Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 9, 2016 7:59:12 GMT 12
Hawkes Bay Today 9/5/16 MISINFORMATION Contrary to the suggestion by Pat Magill (May 4), Healing Our History — The Challenge of the Treaty of Waitangi by Robert and Joanne Consedine is not a good source for information about our early history. These are muddled Irish Catholics who confuse our history with many other very different stories, including some from their ancestral home about the long history of how "Catholic Ireland was dominated by the superior force of Protestant England", even a personal experience in "the Celtic twilight". This is a grievance book, not a reasoned account of the colonial period. It provides only confusion rather than an understanding of the real, the simple and straightforward, Treaty of Waitangi and its promise of equal citizenship. DR JOHN ROBINSON Wellington sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
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