Letters to the Editor
Change of name wont cure our ills
Monday 26 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, What a strange thing that Danny Mataroa should accuse this letter-writer of having missed the vaka when the Mata Atua he puts forth as a suggestion for a new name for this country, happens to be my ancestral vaka. A long time ago it brought me right here to my desired destination, thank […]
Whats in a name?
Saturday 24 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We are writing in reference to the article regarding the name game which quotes Sir Geoffrey Henry. We agree with Sir Geoffrey that it is timely for the discussion for a name change to occur for the following reasons: On August 4, 1965, our indigenous nation celebrated our independence from New Zealand, essentially […]
Kuki Kukupa, you missed the vaka
Saturday 24 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Im sorry to say to Kuki Kukupa: you missed the vaka, even the vaka Mata Atua. The question with the name Mata Atua is which Atua? Tangaroa? Rongo? Career? 4WD? Sports? Title? Taonga? Land? I did not jump on the band wagon of the historically oppressed indigenous people of Ao Tea Roa They […]
Stick to Kuki Airani
Friday 23 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Danny Mataroa needs to do research into his reo and not be so quick to jump on the bandwagon of the historically oppressed indigenous people of Aotearoa. New Zealand Maori have had a much more difficult past than we and they are now a minority in their own country. We, on the other […]
Be part of the team that cares about Muri
Friday 23 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the letter titled Muri community not duly consulted (19/9). It is really sickening to read negative comments that are written by gutless people who dont put their name to their letters to the editor. In that case I will refer to the letter writer as Casper. Casper, […]
Where are the whoppers?
Wednesday 21 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I got up at 5am this morning and went for a boat ride (I dont call it going fishing anymore). Working my way through the swell as the sun broke out of the sea, I got to thinking about Katas cartoon and remembered my dad coming back from fishing out from Kerikeri when […]
Google overfishing and see for yourself
Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Google overfishing and you will see many articles, fact sheets, etc on environmental concerns clearly highlighted. Where is the local environment service and Natural Heritage in the debate? Keep up the good work, Reuben Tylor and Kata. My credentials? As a geography teacher of many years standing I have taught about the resource […]
How much more do I have to suffer?
Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Recently, surrounding the circumstance of my being charged by the police, I trusted our judicial system enough to plead guilty of my charges. I also accepted the hefty fine but much more importantly, my personal remorse and embarrassment to myself and also to my family name. However, I was under the impression that […]
Immigration says reports sensational
Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, On reading your sensational headlines Rasmussen supports foreign workers and Job conditions border slavery: lawyer in Fridays CINews, one would assume that the matters referred to are serious enough to have been brought to the proper authorities for attention and addressed appropriately. This is not the case as far as Immigration is concerned […]
Red carpet in Raro!
Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Your writer of Saturday invites Cook Islands to be peacemakers and invite the Fiji PM to the 2012 South Pacific Forum in Rarotonga. And most Cook Islanders would agree that the man should be welcome here. That is AFTER he has done his time in prison for treason and terrorism, after he has […]
Muri community not duly consulted
Monday 19 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It seems a lot gets pushed on to people in Muri without full discussions about the reasons and causes. First there is a new, total raui banning all taking of marine life in Muri for 10 years. This idea started a few years ago from an overseas donor wanting a limited seaweed raui […]
Performance a ray of hope
Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, After years of disappointment with Tereora College trying to get our children educated in a system that does not work, we were encouraged after attending the awesome performance the children gave at the hall Thursday night. It was a ray of hope that things might actually improve at that institution! Schoolteacher Ms Waldron […]
Let us be peacemakers
Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I just want to add my shillings worth in response to yesterdays paper re: the Pacific Islands Leaders Forum to be held here next year. I read with interest other writers views opposing the Fiji PM from getting an invitation to attend. One would think that there is a reason for the coup […]
Young people need communitys support
Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Tereora College performing arts drama class for their outstanding performance on Thursday night. I was so proud to see so many talented young people showcase their creative and artistic talents through drama, dance and music as part of their contribution to raise awareness on the issue of suicide this week. […]
Move Shorty
Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I agree with the LDS president Danny Williams concerning the adult TV programme Shortland Street. I tried to contact the CITV three times to air my views about the programme too mature for our young children to watch with their parents. I definitely wouldnt want to watch that type of programme with my […]
Musings of an aware indigenous Pacific person
Saturday 17 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Allow me, please. To Wanda did you know that Wanda in the movie called A fish called Wanda was intended by writer and comedian John Cleese to portray stupidity? Obviously you never got what I said in my comments. It is probably because you dont have the mind frame of an aware indigenous […]
Inviting Fiji would be a mockery
Friday 16 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, With all the experience the guy has supposedly gained over the many years he was the countrys minister for foreign affairs, it is disturbing that Wilkie would be nave enough to even suggest, let alone contemplate, our country inviting the current military dictator who illegally appointed himself Fijis Prime Minister to attend next […]
Is Wilkie Rasmussen the new Obama?
Friday 16 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to Deputy Opposition Leader Wilkie Rasmussens drivel on 15 September 2011, let me make these observations. Why after four years of unmentionable bad performance, Wilkie has reinvented himself into The great initiator or The new giant of Pacific politics? Or maybe, the new Obama? One can say that with so many […]
Fisherman urged to keep at it
Friday 16 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to Reuben Tylors letter in CINews yesterday titled Fish facts speak, it is important to get the facts right. He has levelled criticism at the Ministry of Marine Resources in what he describes as failing to provide for the sustainable use of our marine resources and that the fish catch rate […]
Tolerance questioned
Wednesday 14 September 2011 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have just a couple of quick responses to Jarl Arneric. Firstly, my religion Christianity is exclusive in the sense that Jesus Christ is the only way for salvation. Jesus Himself said in His Bible in John 14:6, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the father […]
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