Caring and compassionate treatment
My father was very fortunate to have been in Ranburn Rest Home in Waipu¯ before he passed away recently. The staff and management there are absolutely wonderful, so caring and compassionate treating everyone like family even when sometimes having to deal with unpleasant situations. I can’t thank them enough. Gordon Brown
Whanga¯rei
Parking nightmare
Nigel Chadwick’s quite correct about the lack of sufficient and properly planned parking (April 19). So far, it’s a nightmare. But there are a few other things that the developer (or the council) seem to have put in the don’tbother-about-that bin. There’s no shelter, no seating, no clock, no rubbish bins, no phone kiosk — and no toilets!
Digby Dunne Whanga¯rei
Name change
True to form our young in schools are being influenced by campaigners who are seeking a self gratifying stake in Kamo township’s name
(Advocate 10/4/21).
According to
Richard Shepherd, Te Kamo was a prominent leader in the area. Checking Turton’s land sale deeds it appears that Te Kamo’s
name is not even on the sale deed dated February 23, 1858 when Nga¯ puhi for £50 sold 296 acres, where the township of Kamo now sits, to the Crown.
The deed reads — “. . . all our right title claim and interest
whatsoever thereon To hold to Queen Victoria Her Heirs and Assigns as a lasting possession absolutely for ever and ever . . . ”. Surely that waives any naming rights/claims by neotribalists to a town that was not even built at that time.
The township later built by industrious Europeans whose descendants and those who have a stake in the township should, in
fairness, be consulted by referendum if a name change is floated. Mayor Mai are you listening?
I note also in Papers Past that as far back as 1887 the Northern Advocate referred to the township as Kamo. So for 130 + years the name Kamo has been acceptable, it ain’t broke so don’t fix it. Geoff Parker Whanga¯rei