He Reta
WHENUA – LAND
How many Ngāi Tahu have houses in Christchurch that need to rebuilt and need to access land to build on? These people are struggling and need help. There is be a gap between what the EQC and insurance will pay and them restoring their homes on new land where the market is demanding high prices. Why isn’t our iwi as major sub division developers providing access to land at cost price to our families who are affected? Incredibly land in Wigram isn’t even being offered to us first. I invite feedback to me directly at chris.cooke@xtra.co.nz on how we should move ahead in the future on this.
Chris Cooke
Not funny
Is He Tangata a humour page, or are we meant to take it seriously? I thought perhaps the idea was to give a profile of a Ngāi Tahu role model for our young people to look up to and learn from. But in Issue 50, we are presented with a fellow who claims to be straight-up and honest, yet will tell a lie whenever it suits him. I hope that his children and clients don’t read that. Furthermore, while we are desperately looking at ways to improve our people’s attitudes to the use and abuse of alcohol, this fellow tells us that a good day involves drinking alcohol at both lunch and dinner. Now, he is a grown man and I am not intent on judging him personally or changing his attitudes. However, I am suggesting that if this is the best TE KARAKA can do in finding a role model, then perhaps He Tangata should be discretely discontinued.
Tony Broad
Havelock
Editor’s Note: He Tangata is sometimes serious and sometimes cheeky. It is meant to profile people who are doing interesting things and as well as those who are interesting. I apologise for any offence suffered.
Name correction
My name is Arapata Tregerthen and Whetu was my first cousin, I thought I would let you know that the correct spelling for our name is Tregerthen not Tregurthen as per the latest TE KARAKA.
Arapata Tregerthen
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March 3rd, 2012 at 4:13 am
So my question is… if we were one of those people who ran out and bought the 900 the first day it was available in the USA (and before we realized the 901 and 1000 were coming) did we screw up? Is the 901 significantly better than the 900 or at least enough better to merit trying to sell the month old 900 to get the 901? (i have the 20Gig with 2gigs of ram and XP-pro installed instead of linux)