Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 20, 2019 13:05:14 GMT 12
Weekend Sun / Sunlive 20/12/19
TANTRUMS
Why is Council taking the childish demands and tantrums of someone who missed out being voted on to council so seriously?
Buddy Mikaere had the same chance as Andrew Hollis to be voted on to council. The fact that Andrew drew more than 7000 democratically-elected votes showed that people (including Maori) thought that Andrew Hollis was the right person for the job in council to represent them speaks for itself.
Buddy Mikaere should be asking himself why he wasn’t voted in as he had the same equal opportunity as everyone else.
As far as I know free speech is still allowed in New Zealand but demanding a person should be removed from council because a person said something that most New Zealanders heartily agree with is not to be used as an excuse to try and remove him from council.
Perhaps by trying to do this Buddy thinks he then would have a chance of being elected in his place?
I think this just shows why he wasn’t.
L ASKIN, Bethlehem.
Northland Age 19/12/19
WHERE AND WHEN?
On reading the article ‘Hapu versus iwi over land’ (Northern Advocate December 12), I was intrigued to learn that there were Maori land confiscations north of Auckland, in this case the Ruakaka area. I wonder if the author could specify the boundaries, the date this occurred, by whom, from whom and for what reason, of/for these alleged confiscations.
Henry Hanson Turton’s deed Number 96 records that on February 16, 1854, Ruakaka land was sold for £350 ($700). In fact 19th century transactions detailed in 44 deeds collated by Henry Hanson Turton, and held in government archives, as well as the Victoria University NZETC website, each bearing the names of land owners, record that much of the land from Cape Brett to Mahurangi (including Whangarei) was sold by the Maori land owners.
Like the words ‘sovereignty,’ ‘partnership’ and ‘taonga,’ are some now twisting the meaning of ‘confiscation’ to further racially divide our society?
GEOFF PARKER, Kamo
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers
TANTRUMS
Why is Council taking the childish demands and tantrums of someone who missed out being voted on to council so seriously?
Buddy Mikaere had the same chance as Andrew Hollis to be voted on to council. The fact that Andrew drew more than 7000 democratically-elected votes showed that people (including Maori) thought that Andrew Hollis was the right person for the job in council to represent them speaks for itself.
Buddy Mikaere should be asking himself why he wasn’t voted in as he had the same equal opportunity as everyone else.
As far as I know free speech is still allowed in New Zealand but demanding a person should be removed from council because a person said something that most New Zealanders heartily agree with is not to be used as an excuse to try and remove him from council.
Perhaps by trying to do this Buddy thinks he then would have a chance of being elected in his place?
I think this just shows why he wasn’t.
L ASKIN, Bethlehem.
Northland Age 19/12/19
WHERE AND WHEN?
On reading the article ‘Hapu versus iwi over land’ (Northern Advocate December 12), I was intrigued to learn that there were Maori land confiscations north of Auckland, in this case the Ruakaka area. I wonder if the author could specify the boundaries, the date this occurred, by whom, from whom and for what reason, of/for these alleged confiscations.
Henry Hanson Turton’s deed Number 96 records that on February 16, 1854, Ruakaka land was sold for £350 ($700). In fact 19th century transactions detailed in 44 deeds collated by Henry Hanson Turton, and held in government archives, as well as the Victoria University NZETC website, each bearing the names of land owners, record that much of the land from Cape Brett to Mahurangi (including Whangarei) was sold by the Maori land owners.
Like the words ‘sovereignty,’ ‘partnership’ and ‘taonga,’ are some now twisting the meaning of ‘confiscation’ to further racially divide our society?
GEOFF PARKER, Kamo
sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers