We returned yesterday from Taupo where we had stayed just around the bay from where a 9 year-old girl was tragically killed. It was desperately sad for all parties. No words suffice.
However, I was most interested in the ensuing action of the local Maori Authority Trust Board, Tuwharetoa. They imposed a raahui on about a kilometre stretch of bay which took in a number of upmarket hotels and holiday apartments. A raahui bans people from swimming in the area. It was conveyed through official signs slapped on lamposts etc.
The weather was blisteringly hot and I imagine many people would have felt rather aggrieved at not being able to swim or boat in the lake outside their property or hotel room. But they appeared to be respecting the protocol. However, as the ban was imposed "until further notice", I do not think that will be the case indefinitely.
(A correspondent to NewstalkZB suggested that the raahui would remain in place until a tapu-lifting fee was forthcoming.)
Betrayal. Treason. Lies.
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I have no problem with the directly effected parties putting up signs and asking people to voluntarily abstain from "recreation in the immediate area" while parties deal with their grief.
But non-direct parties asking for money to perform rituals is a rort.
Who would be asked to pay the "tapu lifting fee?
I suggest the mumbo jumbo experts would be too tactful to ask for money from the family of the victim or the perpetrator.
Their eyes will be firmly set on the deeper pockect of local commerce or the council.
And I bet the whimps will dig deep and pay for the hocus pocus.
sg
and HNY to LP
"It was conveyed through official signs slapped on lamposts etc."
To which authority do you refer as "official", Lyndsay?
Sorry - "Lindsay"
sg, The comment about the tapu-lifting fee was cynical (justified?) speculation from a listener.
(HNY to LP?)
Anon, http://tuwharetoa.co.nz/assets/assets.htm
Rort!
I find absurd thay myths like taht are alive and well in the 21st century.
Be sure all will be settled. At a convenient price, of course.
The maori protocol industry is a multi million dollar earner.
Isuspect little will change while national remains in coalition with the Maori party.
It reminds me of Roger Douglas's free market reforms which swept NZ back in the eighties. While at the same time introduced compulsory unionism to boost the coffers of the union movement.
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