Post by Kiwi Frontline on Oct 7, 2019 3:54:26 GMT 12
Otago Daily Times 7/10/19
IT GOES AGAINST DEMOCRACY TO HAVE IWI REPS
PHILIP Temple (Letters, 27.9.19) has expressed disappointment that there appear to be no Ngai Tahu candidates in the forthcoming local body elections.
He needs, however, to understand that, in the new era of cogovernance, iwi do not need to suffer the inconvenience, cost and uncertainty of the electoral process in order to exercise authority over us. That is, apparently, their right as a Treaty entitlement.
Late last year, Environment Canterbury sponsored a local Bill aimed at granting Ngai Tahu the right to appoint two unelected members to Ecan.
More recently, the Otago Regional Council has allowed Ngai Tahu to nominate two unelected members to its most important standing committee.
While the process of granting unelected authority to iwi has gone furthest in Auckland, here in the South, even a decision on new street names in Wanaka requires ‘‘approval by iwi’’ (ODT, 27.9.19).
In this new age of cogovernance, democracy and elections are for everyone else; iwi enjoy increasing power and authority over us as of right.
JOHN BELL, Forbury
ENOUGH OF THESE ATTACKS ON COOK’S REPUTATION
I AM sick and tired of the hypocrisy surrounding one of the greatest hydrographic surveyors in history.
It must be appreciated that, in the 18th century, every commander departing on a threeyear voyage of exploration would have known of the murder of Abel Tasman’s men by Maori.
Captain Cook would certainly have been very cautious if a landing crew had been challenged by Maori. As a military commander, he may have fired and asked questions later.
My research into star pillar navigation concepts indicates that the Polynesian settlements of the 13th century were part of an ordered colonisation in which the exploration navigators took information home to Hawaiiki that allowed the eastern Pacific ruling priesthood to assign star pillar derived position lines for settlement of Aotearoa.
Cook was carrying out a similar exploration data survey. [Abridged]
STAN LUSBY, Moeraki
Dominion Post 7/10/19
FIRST ENCOUNTERS
Funny and peculiar how history can be rewritten such as by TV One's news last Friday. The item related to Cook's visit to Poverty Bay in 1769 was described as the "first encounter between Maori and Europeans".
But Te Ara encyclopaedia says "the first encounter between Maori and Europeans took place in December 1642 at what is now called Golden Bay. Tasman named it Murderers Bay after a violent encounter with Maori. "As Maori approached the Dutch ships in canoes, one canoe rammed a ship's boat that was passing between Tasman's two vessels, killing four Dutchmen. One Maori was hit by a shot from Tasman's men in response to the attack." Which one is correct?
TONY ORMAN, Marlborough
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
IT GOES AGAINST DEMOCRACY TO HAVE IWI REPS
PHILIP Temple (Letters, 27.9.19) has expressed disappointment that there appear to be no Ngai Tahu candidates in the forthcoming local body elections.
He needs, however, to understand that, in the new era of cogovernance, iwi do not need to suffer the inconvenience, cost and uncertainty of the electoral process in order to exercise authority over us. That is, apparently, their right as a Treaty entitlement.
Late last year, Environment Canterbury sponsored a local Bill aimed at granting Ngai Tahu the right to appoint two unelected members to Ecan.
More recently, the Otago Regional Council has allowed Ngai Tahu to nominate two unelected members to its most important standing committee.
While the process of granting unelected authority to iwi has gone furthest in Auckland, here in the South, even a decision on new street names in Wanaka requires ‘‘approval by iwi’’ (ODT, 27.9.19).
In this new age of cogovernance, democracy and elections are for everyone else; iwi enjoy increasing power and authority over us as of right.
JOHN BELL, Forbury
ENOUGH OF THESE ATTACKS ON COOK’S REPUTATION
I AM sick and tired of the hypocrisy surrounding one of the greatest hydrographic surveyors in history.
It must be appreciated that, in the 18th century, every commander departing on a threeyear voyage of exploration would have known of the murder of Abel Tasman’s men by Maori.
Captain Cook would certainly have been very cautious if a landing crew had been challenged by Maori. As a military commander, he may have fired and asked questions later.
My research into star pillar navigation concepts indicates that the Polynesian settlements of the 13th century were part of an ordered colonisation in which the exploration navigators took information home to Hawaiiki that allowed the eastern Pacific ruling priesthood to assign star pillar derived position lines for settlement of Aotearoa.
Cook was carrying out a similar exploration data survey. [Abridged]
STAN LUSBY, Moeraki
Dominion Post 7/10/19
FIRST ENCOUNTERS
Funny and peculiar how history can be rewritten such as by TV One's news last Friday. The item related to Cook's visit to Poverty Bay in 1769 was described as the "first encounter between Maori and Europeans".
But Te Ara encyclopaedia says "the first encounter between Maori and Europeans took place in December 1642 at what is now called Golden Bay. Tasman named it Murderers Bay after a violent encounter with Maori. "As Maori approached the Dutch ships in canoes, one canoe rammed a ship's boat that was passing between Tasman's two vessels, killing four Dutchmen. One Maori was hit by a shot from Tasman's men in response to the attack." Which one is correct?
TONY ORMAN, Marlborough
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers