Waitangi Day appeal
PA Wellington New Zealanders should treat Waitangi Day not as a holiday but as a national day for redressing the injustices of the country’s colonial past, Corso has said. “Promises made to the Maori people in the Treaty of Waitangi have still not been honoured,” said a Corso spokesman, the Rev. Don Borrie. “New Zealanders should use Waitangi Day to look again at our own
history if we are to move forward to a more just society,” he said. Corso’s Aotearoa Fund, established last year to support Maori rural development, was necessary because of the dishonest way the treaty had been used to acquire land, Mr Borrie said. “It is only when the Treaty of Waitangi is fully implemented that Corso’s Aotearoa Fund will no longer be necessary,” he
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Press, 6 February 1986, Page 4
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132Waitangi Day appeal Press, 6 February 1986, Page 4
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