New Zealanders
Sir,—J. Y. Gardiner (October 7), seems to be saying apartheid worked better when it was in the Europeans’ favour. His family has been here for seven generations; mine have been here for 34. This genealogy was compiled by a European and is in the safe keeping of the Polynesian Book
Society. It leads 31 generations down to my great-grandfather, Eru Pahau, so I would be 27 generations more “tangata whenua,” by using his own means of measurement. You do not have to be of any particular race to fall in love with things which may not belong to you, but I am told by a wiser soul, “covetousness is a cardinal sin.” I had five brothers go overseas to fight Fascism, I would like to think. They had not much else to defend, having been dispossessed of lands and other rights three generations before. — Yours, etc. TOM TEWEEHI. October 7, 1988.
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