The most dramatic of those threats appears to have been led by a senior activist from Huntly who has expressed strong objections to his one-sided version of history. While he is free to hold this views, and express them loudly, that freedom does not extend to vandalism or even threats of vandalism. Ngati Tamainupo has protested against the destruction the old garden sites on private land destined for housing in Ngāruawāhia for about six weeks. Many of these same Waikato ratepayers however have had their own memorials to the past damaged and threatened with destruction. Without that reasonable and civilised discussion we all stand to lose too much of the little remains of our past.

Source: Stuff June 26, 2020 17:00 UTC