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Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 31, 2020 2:32:40 GMT 12
Northland Age 31/12/20 PROVE IT Wally Hicks once again charges Dr Muriel Newman (NZCPR) of using the term ‘daughter slaughter’ (letters 22/12/20). In 2018 Wally asserted both Newman and Hobson’s Pledge used the term ‘daughter slaughter’, I challenged him then to provide proof of this – to date he has been unable to do so, this clearly shows that readers should take what this ‘loose cannon’ writes with a grain of salt. Hicks is free to believe the oral Chinese whispers of his neo ‘qualified persons of Maori descent’ – I suspect not many informed New Zealanders who have read recorded history would. However, Claudia Orange a darling of the pro-Maori, anti-colonist brigade records tohunga Matiu Tahu as saying - “You forget what we were and what we have thrown away- our cannibalism, our murders, our infanticide, our tapus, which were gods to us. What prevents our return to these things but religion?.” (When two cultures meet, the New Zealand experience - page 72). In the twenties at Wangaroa, as indeed all over the country, infanticide prevailed to a melancholy extent...... paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTR19150717.2.52 As Elvis Presley said “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a while but it ain’t goin’ away” GEOFF PARKER, Kamo www.kiwifrontline.nz/media/letters-to-the-editor
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