Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 8, 2019 4:42:01 GMT 12
Dear Ed. (Sent to the Waikato Times 2/3/19)
Don’t you dare Mayor King!
I would be fairly confident that Mr. Maipi’s version of events at Rangiaowhia and Parihaka would be at variance to the accounts of many respected and well researched Historians.
I would recommend that the Mayor invite one or two to a similar closed meeting with him and Councillors. (not O’Malley please.)
While Mr. Maipi highlighted three individuals whose names he wants expunged for “murdering Maori” has he forgotten under whose instructions they were operating?
Given his reasoning shouldn’t Mayor and Council also have in train a move to rename Victoria St?
When Mr Maipi vandalised a prominent City statue, without penalty, I suggested he had far too much publicity. I repeat that belief.
MURRAY REID, Leamington
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Wanganui Chronicle 1/3/19
I do some more “cherry-picking” for H Norton, but could fill your paper with hard facts. But first, I did NOT say “that there were little or no settlements or agriculture along the South Taranaki coast before Europeans settled it.”
Quoting Charles Heaphy, reporting in 1861 to the House of Representatives:
“It is a peculiar feature in the history of Taranaki that before the regular settlement of the country by the British, it had for several years been almost deserted by the natives.
“The Waikato conquered it in 1830 ... but not considering it worth while to retain occupation, they returned Northward.
“A miserable remnant of about 30 or 40 Natives of the Ngatiawa lived at Ngamotu point in 1839, when the writer was there, and were prepared to swim off to the Sugarloaf Island, where they had formed burrows, and laid up provisions, in anticipation of a renewed invasion of the Waikatos.”
I can provide missionary Ironside’s full letter from which I have already “cherry-picked”.
It is nonsense for Norton to describe the suppression of the rebellions as “invasions” of British sovereign territory. In the first rebellion against the Crown of some Taranaki tribes, in a little over twelve months, the rebels destroyed 177 settler properties. I have W I Grayling’s detailed 1862 list.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
Don’t you dare Mayor King!
I would be fairly confident that Mr. Maipi’s version of events at Rangiaowhia and Parihaka would be at variance to the accounts of many respected and well researched Historians.
I would recommend that the Mayor invite one or two to a similar closed meeting with him and Councillors. (not O’Malley please.)
While Mr. Maipi highlighted three individuals whose names he wants expunged for “murdering Maori” has he forgotten under whose instructions they were operating?
Given his reasoning shouldn’t Mayor and Council also have in train a move to rename Victoria St?
When Mr Maipi vandalised a prominent City statue, without penalty, I suggested he had far too much publicity. I repeat that belief.
MURRAY REID, Leamington
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Wanganui Chronicle 1/3/19
I do some more “cherry-picking” for H Norton, but could fill your paper with hard facts. But first, I did NOT say “that there were little or no settlements or agriculture along the South Taranaki coast before Europeans settled it.”
Quoting Charles Heaphy, reporting in 1861 to the House of Representatives:
“It is a peculiar feature in the history of Taranaki that before the regular settlement of the country by the British, it had for several years been almost deserted by the natives.
“The Waikato conquered it in 1830 ... but not considering it worth while to retain occupation, they returned Northward.
“A miserable remnant of about 30 or 40 Natives of the Ngatiawa lived at Ngamotu point in 1839, when the writer was there, and were prepared to swim off to the Sugarloaf Island, where they had formed burrows, and laid up provisions, in anticipation of a renewed invasion of the Waikatos.”
I can provide missionary Ironside’s full letter from which I have already “cherry-picked”.
It is nonsense for Norton to describe the suppression of the rebellions as “invasions” of British sovereign territory. In the first rebellion against the Crown of some Taranaki tribes, in a little over twelve months, the rebels destroyed 177 settler properties. I have W I Grayling’s detailed 1862 list.
BRUCE MOON, Nelson
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters