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Hi LL

You're very good at keeping up with these dates! Thank you.

NZ Day really is "Waitangi Day". Where all our cultural troubles began ... lol. On 6th February1840 the Maori chiefs signed with the Queen of England the "Treaty of Waitangi". Gave a lot of authority to the Crown (now NZ Government) and in turn offered a lot to Maori.

Maori now claim that they have been hard done by, and are putting all sorts of claims through the court to claim full rights over the sea and land in a lot of areas, thereby trying to restrict the average white New Zealander to some of these things. Meanwhile I think Maori have done okay from the white man and the British input that has brought in schools & hospitals etc.

It's against the law to discriminate against race in NZ, yet the Maori can get access to a lot of perky things that I cant get ... financial assistance in a lot of things for education & health, financial loans, special seats in Parliament etc - even a parliamentary "Maori Party". (Imagine if we tried to get a Whiteman's Party!) All in the name of the Treaty of Waitangi. I dont' know how they've twisted so much out of the system really.

I had a lovely long weekend, with Friday the holiday. Headed to the mountains.

Renaming Waitangi Day to NZ Day I understand was so that it would be seen as a day for all NZers, rather than a Maori Day. Just a formality thing really as everybody still refers to it as Waitangi Day.

I think it probably has expired, though I'm not seeing the ads yet, probably because I'm a board owner or something. To be honest, I doubt it's worth payiing to take them out, since we're about all wound up here.