Post by Kiwi Frontline on Nov 17, 2019 15:02:57 GMT 12
Dear Sir, (Sent to the Northland Age 5/11/19)
It is stated, the settlement package with Moriori includes a total value of $18 million in financial redress and the transfer of sites of significance to Moriori as cultural redress.
Tangata Maori become British Subjects after they signed the Treaty and if a British Subject commits a crime they are punished by the Crown, but the Crown does not pay the victim’s compensation, compensation is paid by the person/group who committed the crime. Why are Taranaki Maori any different?
This was the Queen’s law that tangata Maori agreed to when they signed the Treaty of Waitangi, and the law they acknowledged at the Kohimarama Conference 20 years later.
Taranaki, as any other group/person who breaks the law is responsible for their actions, not the Crown or the taxpayers.
Whether it was at the time or 20 years later, the Crown did not commit the crime and had enough problems in New Zealand without immediately addressing problems in the Chatham Islands. The Crown acted when it could and must hold Taranaki responsible for their despicable crimes. See “Moriori” by Michael King.
Why are the taxpayers of New Zealand paying Taranaki Maori’s compensation for slaughtering Moriori men, women and children in 1835, then farming them “like swine” into virtual extinction?
ROSS BAKER. Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc.
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Taranaki Daily News 30/10/19)
Parikaha as a settlement was however, founded by a part-Maori gold miner, Daniel Ellison, a,k,a, Raiera Erihana, who made almost a million pounds at the Dunstan diggings in Central Otago. Ellison married the granddaughter of Ngai Tahu chief Taiaroa in 1861, according to Ngai Tahu historian Jean Jackson. He encouraged squatters to settle at Parihaka, and sunk his money into it. Jackson remarks ‘Untill the 1860’s it seems there was no Parihaka, the village often misrepresented, built near New Plymouth. The settlement was largesse from Raniera Erihana or Daniel Ellison.
Taranaki Herald reported that Parihaka was infected by vermin for lack of cleanliness and by overcrowding, that it was absolutely filthy through lack of sanitary precautions, and an outbreak of pestilence was feared that summer. The Maori of surrounding communities had neglected their own affairs, and spent much of the time in Parihaka due to the frequency of the gatherings.
According to Jean Jackson, a Botanist who has studied the use of plants by Maori, Parihaka women were put to work making corn liquor, and she suspects that Te Whiti kept his followers drugged.
Since the earliest days of Pakeha settlement, of chiefs giving their wahine over to prostitution, a plausible explanation in the case of Parihaka, given its history as a centre of contagion, and of Te Whiti’s interest in profiting from his followers by seemingly every means of venereal disease among the Maori prior to 1939 was at best anecdotal.
There were weapons stocked at Parihaka, and a significant proportion of those with violent temperaments, including honoured murderers such as Hiroki, and Titokowaru with his cannibal band.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
Dear Editor, (Sent to the NZ Herald 21/10/19)
COLONIALISM
Regarding this series on confronting colonialism, what happened to No to hate speech, this is disgusting.
This is so one sided and disrespectful to Cook who Was an Explorer not a Colonist!
No mention of all the killing done by Maori and to their own people, killing and eating their own, infanticide etc.
Colonialism was inevitable and may have been by any other country.
No one mentions the good that became of it all, a lovely developed country!
C HUMPHREYS, Katikati
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters
It is stated, the settlement package with Moriori includes a total value of $18 million in financial redress and the transfer of sites of significance to Moriori as cultural redress.
Tangata Maori become British Subjects after they signed the Treaty and if a British Subject commits a crime they are punished by the Crown, but the Crown does not pay the victim’s compensation, compensation is paid by the person/group who committed the crime. Why are Taranaki Maori any different?
This was the Queen’s law that tangata Maori agreed to when they signed the Treaty of Waitangi, and the law they acknowledged at the Kohimarama Conference 20 years later.
Taranaki, as any other group/person who breaks the law is responsible for their actions, not the Crown or the taxpayers.
Whether it was at the time or 20 years later, the Crown did not commit the crime and had enough problems in New Zealand without immediately addressing problems in the Chatham Islands. The Crown acted when it could and must hold Taranaki responsible for their despicable crimes. See “Moriori” by Michael King.
Why are the taxpayers of New Zealand paying Taranaki Maori’s compensation for slaughtering Moriori men, women and children in 1835, then farming them “like swine” into virtual extinction?
ROSS BAKER. Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc.
Dear Editor, (Sent to the Taranaki Daily News 30/10/19)
Parikaha as a settlement was however, founded by a part-Maori gold miner, Daniel Ellison, a,k,a, Raiera Erihana, who made almost a million pounds at the Dunstan diggings in Central Otago. Ellison married the granddaughter of Ngai Tahu chief Taiaroa in 1861, according to Ngai Tahu historian Jean Jackson. He encouraged squatters to settle at Parihaka, and sunk his money into it. Jackson remarks ‘Untill the 1860’s it seems there was no Parihaka, the village often misrepresented, built near New Plymouth. The settlement was largesse from Raniera Erihana or Daniel Ellison.
Taranaki Herald reported that Parihaka was infected by vermin for lack of cleanliness and by overcrowding, that it was absolutely filthy through lack of sanitary precautions, and an outbreak of pestilence was feared that summer. The Maori of surrounding communities had neglected their own affairs, and spent much of the time in Parihaka due to the frequency of the gatherings.
According to Jean Jackson, a Botanist who has studied the use of plants by Maori, Parihaka women were put to work making corn liquor, and she suspects that Te Whiti kept his followers drugged.
Since the earliest days of Pakeha settlement, of chiefs giving their wahine over to prostitution, a plausible explanation in the case of Parihaka, given its history as a centre of contagion, and of Te Whiti’s interest in profiting from his followers by seemingly every means of venereal disease among the Maori prior to 1939 was at best anecdotal.
There were weapons stocked at Parihaka, and a significant proportion of those with violent temperaments, including honoured murderers such as Hiroki, and Titokowaru with his cannibal band.
IAN BROUGHAM, Wanganui
Dear Editor, (Sent to the NZ Herald 21/10/19)
COLONIALISM
Regarding this series on confronting colonialism, what happened to No to hate speech, this is disgusting.
This is so one sided and disrespectful to Cook who Was an Explorer not a Colonist!
No mention of all the killing done by Maori and to their own people, killing and eating their own, infanticide etc.
Colonialism was inevitable and may have been by any other country.
No one mentions the good that became of it all, a lovely developed country!
C HUMPHREYS, Katikati
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers/unpublished-letters