There are several projects in Kapiti it could be spent on “doing”.
the Jacinda government grants another $16 million to be spent on ‘re-imagining’
16 Thursday Sep 2021
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16 Thursday Sep 2021
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There are several projects in Kapiti it could be spent on “doing”.
We could start by adding street names in English to all those that are currently in maori.
This would be a godsend to map readers.
Would it not be rather the opposite, fitting two different names into every street in maps? We commented in this post 4 years ago about having names that consist of more than 3 syllables, and agree on that: https://waikanaewatch.org/2017/10/16/new-street-names-in-the-waikanae-north-subdivision/
Return to the stone-age??
Where does this end? I hunted in the Tararuas in my late teens with a Maori friend Mike. Great company. Now I have a son in law who is strongly Maori – very good guy and husband to my daughter. I have a Maori neighbour, a great neighbour. They don’t speak in Maori. I played senior rugby in a team in Hawkes Bay 50% Maoris. We were or are just all Kiwis.
This morning I watched TV One Breakfast Show. Weather forecast in maori was unintelligible.
John Campbell and Melissa frothed in delighted and giggled in juvenile twitty fashion. I turned to TV Three Am Show which was much better.
PM Ardern talks of a team of 5 million. She is dividing NZ. Is it “divide and conquer” a not unknown political tactic?
I fear for the future and the NZ my children and grandchildren will have to face up to.
I can’t think why Maori need any help “re-imagining”. They’ve demonstrated damn good skills re-imagining the Treaty of Waitangi to mean whatever they want it to mean and persuading gullible politicians to hand over barrel loads of dosh.
How many times over the decades have we witnessed “full and final” settlements renegotiated and resettled ” full and final” again and again. Seems there are no limits to their imagination without government help!
Or am I being cynical in thinking “vote buying”?
And 16 million is peanuts compared to the cost of setting up and maintaining government’s proposed second health system based on racial separation. The bureaucrats will be rubbing their hands if that goes ahead.