Perhaps:
- "A Ngapuhi elder is adamant the Maori sovereignty flag will be flown on One Tree Hill in Auckland on Waitangi Day tomorrow" - Newstalk ZB
- "Flag won't fly on One Tree Hill" - TVNZ
It's certainly done that.
There's one thing about the flag controversy that I for one find ironic. It is Nga Puhi rather than local iwi Ngati Whatua who are primarily pushing to place the separatism flag on No Tree Hill, yet it is Nga Puhi led by Hongi Hika who invaded Auckland in the 1820s, slaughtering at least a third of the Ngati Whatua population, and forcing them to flee the isthmus -- but not from thier their pa at One Tree Hill (Maungakiekie), which had been empty since at least the late-1700s. Ngati Whatua themselves only returned to the isthmus in numbers once Hongi Hika had died, and the protection of British law was established -- law that the separatists regularly bewail.
UPDATE: The "Ngapuhi elder" told Newstalk ZB he's showing up at No Tree Hill at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning to wave his flag around "for a few hours." The flag is not the Maori separatism flag, but the 1835 Declaration of Independence flag (right).
LINK: Foreshore and Seabed and property rights - Not PC (Sept, 2006)
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