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OVERSEAS INVESTMENT A KEY PART OF OUR STORY The overseas ownership of New Zealand was back in the headlines with the release of KPMG’s Foreign Direct Investment in New Zealand: Trends and Insights. The report dispels a widely held belief that New Zealand is being gobbled up by Chinese buyers as Chinese interests accounted for only 14 per cent of the country’s overseas investments in the January 2013 to December 2014 period. During that same period the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia accounted for 59 per cent of overseas investment, Asia 33 per cent and South America 1 per cent. The remaining 7 per cent did not disclose their origins. Foreign investment has been a regular controversial issue in New Zealand, including in the 1970s when Bill Sutch published Takeover New Zealand....... Continue reading Brian Gaynor's interesting article here > http://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/brian-gaynor-overseas-investment-key.html#more

you mean like this wacko jacko > Ngai Tahu sells Canterbury forestry land > http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/5712149/Ngai-Tahu-sells-Canterbury-forestry-land From forest to top flight golf course > http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11078700 you are only scaremongering with separatist BS, Mr Key says that rural land sales to foreign buyers has halved since National came to office >

Taranaki Daily News 26/8/15 SPREAD THE WORD A few weeks ago I was asked "Why do you write letters to the editor?" At the time I was explaining my ideas to a group of five and the answer was "I have to talk to a group this size 20 times to get my thoughts to 100 people, whereas with one letter to the editor I can spread how I am thinking to thousands." I think it is important for an elected representative to put their thoughts down in writing so there are no unpleasant surprises after an election. Many who seek public office prefer to not put their plans in writing to enable them the freedom to "run with the hares and hunt with the hounds". I am against the New Plymouth District Council's ward system of representation. It was interesting to note Councillor Tamati's and Mayor Judd's comments that the referendum on Maori wards was an embarrassment to Maori. Let me tell these two and the others who voted for a Maori ward that it was an embarrassment to all of us, especially those of us who could see the NPDC was on the wrong track and did something about it. We all, at times, feel disenfranchised by decisions made by both the management and governance of the NPDC. This doesn't mean we need wards on gender, economic, racial or geographic criteria. It means we need an "at large" voting system as we have a "one bucket" financial system. A "no ward" scenario would allow all of us to vote for all the councillors as well as the Mayor and if the candidates were good enough they would be elected, no matter what part of the NPDC area they came from. J H Urenui Gisborne Herald 25/8/15 MANY RACES NURTURE CULTURE WITHOUT TAXPAYER FUNDING To keep the record straight re banning the Maori language at schools (August 23 letter), it was Maori elders who asked for the language to be banned at school so their young, through learning English, would be able to take advantage of opportunities arising from the new economy; Refer: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BIM873TeHa-t1-g1-t2.html Your correspondent further stated that “the colonials basically tried to shut down Maori culture”. Surely she does not support law of the club, daughter slaughter, cannibalism, slavery, enforced marriages which were a large part of the Maori culture, “laws” and values pre 1840? In 1831, Maori chiefs wrote to King William IV asking for help. This was accomplished through the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi 1840. Those wise Maori chiefs chose to accept English law and culture, which provided them not only with protection but a written language, land ownership, education and access to clothing, housing, healthcare etc — do I hear ehara koe i a ia! Perhaps not! In New Zealand many races nurture their culture and language with neither funding from the taxpayer nor imposing it on their fellow Kiwis. Why can’t Maori? GEOFF PARKER Kamo, Whangarei https://sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers

LEST WE FORGET THE WAIKATO WAR Reports of the commemoration of the 1863 Waikato war make much of tribal bitterness at land confiscations but don’t consider what would have resulted if the government of the day had failed to act. If British victory in the 1860s wars set the course of New Zealand’s development, it is likely British inaction would have led to escalating attacks on small coastal settlements by well-armed, lawless, and hostile tribes that dominated the interior of the North Island. The resulting casualties would have far exceeded the 619 anti-government Maori and 162 British, colonist, and pro-government Maori killed in the 1863 campaign. The colonial government had no option but to win Proposed confiscations were contentious at the time. Former chief justice Sir William Martin then argued that the confiscation of Maori-owned land would only result in a “brooding sense of wrong”. Even Native Minister Donald McLean said the confiscations were an expensive mistake. But the threat of land confiscation was the one option that pushed chiefs to decide whether to join the new economy or try to relive the glory days of perpetual war. The confiscated Waikato territory initially comprised 1,202,172 acres (486,501ha), including virtually all of Waikato north of a line drawn from Raglan to Tauranga. Approximately 314,364 acres (127,218ha) was returned to those Waikato Maori who were judged not to have rebelled. The area finally confiscated totalled 887,808 acres (359,283ha). Waikato-Tainui spokesman Roa said the invasion of Waikato had a horrendous effect, causing Maori to become a landless, poverty stricken people. But the poverty was largely to do with the fact that Waikato tribes shunned the settler economy. After the wars ended in 1872, the King Country remained closed to settlers for more than a decade, until Ngati Maniapoto leaders agreed to the construction of the North Island Main Trunk railway in the mid 1880s. The re-written history included in the the Waikato-Tainui Deed of Settlement presents the fiction of the Crown engaging in war against Maori in the Waikato for no apparent reason and unjustly taking large areas of land. The deed fails to accept that Waikato Maori were deeply involved with Wiremu Kingi in the Taranaki War of 1860, and Kingi himself was involved in Waikato fighting. If there is any doubt about what took place in New Zealand during the 1860s, there are numerous letters, statements, and news reports from the time that that show it was a struggle between supporters of the Maori king against supporters of the British Queen. Missionary Reverend Morgan summed up the struggle when he wrote to parliament at the time saying: "The vital question with the Maori Kingites now, is whether the King or the Queen shall possess the mana of New Zealand. Hence the frequent expression of the Waikatos now in arms, “we are going to fight for New Zealand. We sent the king’s flag to Taranaki, and it is our duty to follow the king’s flag. We are fighting for the mana of our island”. The British government acquired sovereignty over New Zealand by treaty of cession, by proclamation, by occupation, and by conquest. After more than 20 years of settler occupation and government, the wars of the 1860s meant the issue of sovereignty finally was decided with unwilling tribes on the battlefield, by conquest. A commemoration dawn service was held at Mangatawhiri on Friday morning, marking the date when, on July 12, 1863, troops crossed the Mangatawhiri Stream into Waikato, sparking a nine month conflict in which 4000 tribalists fought 14,000 government troops comprising soldiers, settlers, and pro-government Maori.... http://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2013/07/mike-butler-lest-we-forget-waikato-war.html

The Crown and Auckland Council's genuflecting to Ngati Whatua and its various hapu based on their claim to mana whenua over the Tamaki Isthmus is arrant nonsense. Further, it is often asserted that Ngati Whatua “gifted” the land on which Auckland City now stands to the Crown, thus entitling them to be involved on an ongoing basis in running the city. The land was not “gifted” at all, but sold to the Crown for cash and goods. Once something is sold, it’s gone for good, and the seller has no further claim over it or ongoing rights to say what happens with it. Claims to the contrary can be likened to selling someone a house, then demanding a perpetual say in how it is renovated, decorated and landscaped. In any event, like so many early New Zealand land sales, Ngati Whatua’s claims to ownership at the time of sale are tenuous at best. Ngati Whatua were not the first occupants of the Auckland area. Originally based further north, they colonised the locality around 1750 by exterminating its former occupants, Te Waiohua. What goes around comes around. In the 1820s, the Tamaki Isthmus was repeatedly invaded by musket-toting Ngapuhi. The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand records that as a result: “much of the isthmus was abandoned as tribes sought shelter in the Tainui region.” Historian, RCJ Stone, notes: “fear of Ngapuhi prevented them [Ngati Whatua] from occupying their old home for many years afterwards, indeed, not until Auckland was founded [in 1840] did they feel safe.” Ngati Whatua thus “sold” to the Crown land they’d cravenly vacated more than a decade before. Land they no longer occupied or controlled in any meaningful sense. This placed the Governor and his troops between Ngati Whatua returnees and renewed hostilities from Ngapuhi. Payment from the Crown also underscored to neighbouring tribes that the mana of the land remained with Ngati Whatua, though if you run away rather than standing up for yourself, that mana is clearly gone for good. While a clever stroke of business from both a practical and a Maori perspective, this historical action hardly supports demands from Aucklanders of Anglo-Ngati Whatua descent for special treatment based on having some Maori ancestry. - by Reuben P Chapple

TRIBES COMPETE IN AUCKLAND CLAIM Looking at history, the Auckland isthmus was largely uninhabited in 1840, at the official start of British settlement. Ngati Whatua had occupied the Auckland area from the mid-18th century until 1822 when driven out by a Ngapuhi war expedition. From 1840, Ngati Whatua people were happy to sell large parcels of land to incoming settlers because they were too frightened to live there alone. As settlers bought pieces of the isthmus, Patuone of Ngapuhi supported the British governor by acting as a buffer against attacks from the north. Te Wherowhero of Waikato protected from the south.... Read Mike Butler's full enlightening article here > http://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/mike-butler-tribes-compete-in-auckland.html

WE NEED A TREATY TIMELINE, AND WE NEED TO STICK TO IT http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11501996

The Southland Times 24/8/15 TREATY CLAIMS And here we go again. The Maori King is laying a claim to the Waitangi Tribunal for a huge chuck of urban Auckland. If one ever wants a colour-blind New Zealand, where everyone is treated equally, someone needs to put an end to this gravy train. Unfortunately, both major parties in New Zealand need Maori voters or more importantly, the support of the Maori Party. The treaty, signed by nearly all the Maori Chieftains, was in Maori, not the subsequent English interpretations. That Maori document had three clearly worded articles. The first was that Maori ceded sovereignty to the Crown of England, primarily to avoid the pending French colonisation and the decades of decimation as Maori slaughtered, ate and made slaves of other Maori. The third was that Maori would have the rights of British subjects (where slavery was banned) and that all in New Zealand would be one people. The second article related to Maori having the right to have and retain rights over their ‘taonga’ (this being land or property). Taonga is the spear and implied that land would include what was taken during periods of conflict with other tribes. Taonga, with the help of the Maori Council and an Appeal Court case, now determines taonga as a ‘treasure to Maori’ which opens up everything including culture, language, forestry, deep sea fishing, fresh water, wind, air waves etc. Maori and the Crown were parties to the treaty. Parties do not mean we are in partnership. Parties and partnership are totally different. And the United Nations agreement (which we are signatory to) on Indigenous Peoples Rights is not applicable to Maori as they are not indigenous to New Zealand – they migrated here just like other cultures who came later. We need to put an end to this. A deadline to lodge any more claims (Helen Clark had already set September 1, 2008 for that reason). A second date should finalise the settlements. No more top-ups or new lines of sucking money out of our nation. Then we can get rid of the currently racially based Constitutional Committee, get a new flag and new constitution with no reference to the Treaty of Waitangi, where all those in New Zealand are truly ‘‘one people’’. N C Invercargill https://sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers

Northern Advocate 22/8/15 UNDER PRESSURE In her letter (18/5/15) Marie Kaire thought that the Government is not doing enough to promote the Maori language. Yet we, an English-speaking nation, are increasingly being bombarded daily with Maori language in government departments, hospitals, libraries, police stations, supermarkets, banks, airports, education facilities, radio. TV and newspapers. The amount spent on Maori language initiatives is something of a moveable feast, depending on what is included. An excerpt from a Stuff.co.nz article in 2011 reads: "the Government spends about $225 to $600 million on te reo initiatives annually." The $3.3 million that Marie begrudges Asian language teaching in schools pales into Insignificance by comparison. It's an increasingly global economic environment, so to make a living we need to communicate with as many people as possible. This in itself makes te reo an absolute luxury. Marie promotes compulsory Maori language learning in preschools and primary schools, yet clearly the results of these public polls show that if given a choice New Zealanders oppose compulsion: 79 per cent say no to compulsory te reo (NZ Herald online poll), and 82 per cent no to compulsory Maori in schools (yahoo Xtra poll). In 1962 visiting scholar David Ausebel wisely wrote: "The future of the Maori language and culture lies not with the intervening European but in the Maori home, and in the habits and usages of the Maori parents." The fact that Maori parents chose (for very valid reasons) not to teach the Maori language to their children is no justification for forcing non•Maori to pay for its revival and forcing New Zealand children to learn it. While the Maori language and culture may be a very great treasure to those who value it. to those who do not, it is not. GEOFF PARKER Kamo https://sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers

MAORI KING LAYS CLAIM TO AUCKLAND AT NGARUAWAHIA Maori King Tuheitia has launched a claim for Auckland extending to the Mahurangi Peninsula and down the Firth of Thames and across to the Manukau Harbour and Piha. He told more than 500 people gathered at Turangawaewae Marae in Ngaruawahia, including Prime Minister John Key, he was determined to see the claim through. "It must be done," Tuheitia said on Friday. "I am determined to do it with the start of the Kingitanga Claim in Tamaki."... http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/71341230/maori-king-lays-claim-to-auckland-at-ngaruawahia

OUR FLAG Patriotism. Where has that been in all this debate? Is it an outdated concept now? The love of ones country. I think patriotism is a step beyond our self-conscious and self-important talk of ‘identity’. It is love for something else, not the quest for self-discovery. It is certainly far more than the ‘branding’ which the Prime Minister regularly speaks of...... Continue reading David Round's NZCPR guest commentary here > http://www.nzcpr.com/our-flag/

MOLE NEWS Headlines 17/8/15 * VETERAN GUIDE KNOCKED OFF MT TARANAKI DUE TO IWI CONCERNS A veteran guide has been kicked off operating on Mt Taranaki because iwi are unhappy with his disregard of Maori culture...... * THOUSANDS PAID OUT FOR ELECTRICITY PROJECT A multi-million-dollar electricity project straddling properties in the Far North has already attracted more than $100,000 in compensation payments to owners of Maori land..... 16/8/15 * DAVID ROUND'S 5 PART MAORI SOVEREIGNTY SERIES A must read for ALL New Zealanders 15/8/15 * MĀORI 'NEED MORE OF A VOICE IN LOCAL GOVT' Labour MP Kelvin Davis says Māori need more of a voice in local government than just token consultation.... * MAORI, ADVISORY COMMITTEE HAVE MUCH TO OFFER; SAMUELS More than a year after its formation, the chairman of Te Tai Tokerau Maori Advisory Committee (TTMAC) says he’s thrilled at the way Northland Maori have embraced the concept..... 14/8/15 * MAORI PARTY WELCOMES GREATER IWI INPUT INTO LOCAL COUNCILS The Māori Party is pleased to see that iwi in the Taranaki and Hawkes Bay regions will have greater input in to their local regional councils..... * MAORI NATION AND NEW ZEALAND SIGN AQUACULTURE AGREEMENTS TO GIVE 20% OF APPROVED AREA SITES TO MAORI THREE new Māori aquaculture agreements have been signed in the New Zealand Parliament which will give the people improved fish farming opportunities..... 13/8/15 * LOCAL MĀORI WANT ELLIOT BAY PROPERTY UP FOR SALE LAND-BANKED The Elliot family hope to sell most of their large Elliot Bay property based in the Bay of Islands, which stretches to pristine coastline, and has served as a popular tourist attraction for many years. Local Māori however are urging the Crown to buy back the land in question and to have it land banked as part of a future Treaty Settlement package..... * GOVERNMENT MUST FIX MAORI OBESITY: RESEARCHERS The legacy of colonisation has predisposed Maori to having much higher rates of obesity than the total New Zealand population and the Government must do much more to address this inequity, a group of Otago University researchers say.... * OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL WELCOMES STRENGTHENED RELATIONSHIP Otago Regional Council chairman Stephen Woodhead has welcomed the signing of a national agreement between local government and iwi which is designed to strengthen and formalise their working relationship..... 12/8/15 * 'COLOSSAL, UNJUSTIFIED' PAYMENTS TO TREATY NEGOTIATORS Winston Peters says inexperienced Treaty negotiators are being overpaid.... See stories on MOLE NEWS > http://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.co.nz/2015/05/mole-news.html Mole News is published on a regular basis to expose the on-going build up of race-based privilege in New Zealand.

Southland Times 17/8/15 FINLAYSON SHOULD GO Mr Winston Peters has uncovered something that Chris Finlayson did not want the people of New Zealand to know about. He uncovered that the 13 men and women who bring about what are referred to as "settlements" for the Waitangi tribunal received $7.8 million. Mr Peters is a man of the truth. Speaking in Parliament, Mr Finlayson said the comments were unfair, disgusting, vulgar and crude, and accused him of an "intemperate attack" on the negotiators. "Mr Peters is nothing more than the Donald Trump of New Zealand politics who wants nothing more than a cheap headline." "I say to New Zealand First that their tendency to personalise things and attack the individuals as they have done with my treaty negotiators is something I resent and something I think is quite simply disgusting". What Finlayson has judged in Peters he is guilty of himself. Peters reported facts. Finlayson became rude and insulting. He has acted, it seems, and I may be wrong, in a manner like that of a vicious viper whose contrivances have been revealed. He is guilty of unjust transferences of billions of tax money. All of these acts of "settlements" are what seems to amount to extortion, are based upon fictitious and contrived accounts of justice being exercised. I see this from the true accounts from the NZ Centre for Political Research. Let Mr Finlayson be dismissed. A W M Invercargill https://sites.google.com/site/kiwifrontline/letters-submitted-to-newspapers

misTREATY - 'He iwi tahi tatou' Part 1 of 6 HOW TREATY POLICY HIT AUCKLAND PROPERTY VALUES New Zealand's first governor, William Hobson, said to each chief after they signed the Treaty of Waitangi on February 6, 1840, 'He iwi tahi tatou' … We are now one people. However, policy over 30 years has turned us into two peoples. July 18, 2015 - With residents of Auckland's most prestigious street, Paratai Drive, fighting Maori heritage designations, government weakness in face of demands for Maori “rights” has cast a shadow on some Auckland property values. How did we get to this?....... Continue reading part 1 of Mike Butlers articles here > http://www.elocal.co.nz/view_Article~id~1883%20%20%20%20%20%20.html

TANIWHA FOUND IN COUNCIL DOCUMENTS Councillor George Wood finds a Taniwha in council documents and the unelected Maori member gets angry when it's pointed out. There is enough underhanded stuff being sneaked past our elected members already. This must stop! Fast forward to 16 min and 26 min video. Thanks to Hayden Smith http://councillive.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/video/130815-auckland-development-committee-item-11-part-1