Mary Brooks (August 3) says that Maori have used false claims to acquire $37 billion in land, forestry, fishing rights, buildings and cash. Mary should provide the source of her information.
It seems likely that Mary is using websites with fictional information such as www.kilts.co.nz/mhorruairidh which she has previously quoted from. This website carries the fictional story of Taine Mhor coming from Scotland to New Zealand in Viking ships about 1120AD.
According to the story Taine and his 90 member community farmed on the West Coast of the North Island for 160 years.
Some members then went back to Scotland and returned to New Zealand with wives. The community was eventually either enslaved or eaten by cannibals. None of this has been recorded in Scottish history and no evidence of such a settlement in New Zealand has been found.
Peter Dey, Welcome Bay.
4 comments
MARY IS RIGHT
Posted on 10-08-2012 13:28 | By TERMITE
The easiest way to substantiate what Mary Brooks has said is to send Peter a copy of the Watangi Act 1975, the Maori and english translations are said to be the same but the English version in the statute is not a true translation and has many significiant differences. This is well known to the Government and our MP's both then and now.
mary mixes fiction with fact
Posted on 11-08-2012 15:39 | By Peter Dey
the treaty of waitangi act has nothing about $37 billion
ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY
Posted on 13-08-2012 20:30 | By EYESPY
E hokihoki Kupe ? or did Kupe ever come back.Kua manako te koura i kore ai.
Was that BC or AD (?)
Posted on 16-08-2012 21:08 | By Hebegeebies
Surely as 1120AD is after William the Conqueror the question is what Viking boats would have been operative at that time and what would they have to do with the Scots.
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