I usually enjoy Rogers Rabbits but this week (July 26) was one long moan.
Starting with the excitement some felt over the birth of Prince George.
You do not have to read all the blurb about the birth, or any member of the royal family. You do not have to watch events unfolding on TV.
I am sure The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would gladly do without all the fuss, but that is the penalty you pay for marrying into royalty and, in these sometimes bleak times, it was heart-warming to see the crowds in London cheering the safe arrival of the Prince. Talk about party-pooper.
As for all the other anti-royalist drivel - just remember Queen Victoria and her Government did not want to respond to the pleas for help from Maori Chiefs, who were fearful that the continual fighting and cannabalism between tribes would totally destroy the Maori population. It was not exactly fun for CaptainWilliam Hobson, his entourage and hundreds of troops having to travel to the other side of the world, in appalling conditions, to bring peace to ungrateful tribes who, hardly had the ink dried before they were fighting again.
Maori ought to be eternally grateful they were colonised by the British and not the Belgiums or French, whose records of colonisation are the most brutal.

Mary Brooks,Tauranga.