Dawn Raids

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Dawn Raids

Back in the 1970’s people from the Pacific Islands and many other countries like

Australia and England were working in New Zealand they started family's, got new friends,

settled into the New Zealand lifestyle completely. But one day in 1974 everything

changed for them. They were raided in there own homes that they paid for, they looked after,

taken into police custody and flew back to there home countries. 40% of the people who came from other countries were Polynesian and Pacific Islanders, that 40% were targeted during the raids due to there skin colour because they were easier to identify than the others, they were even pulling up Maori people on the streets asking them to show their passports to prove there raise.

By Pippa Yr 7

No More Mining On Conservation Land

No More Mining On Conservation Land

No more mining on Conservation land that’s barbaric, most people’s jobs are in
mining and they’re stopping now when middle age people most likely won’t get a
job anywhere else on the West Coast,  due to most of the West Coast is Conservation
land or family businesses not looking for anyone new. If you can’t get a job anywhere else
on the West Coast where will you mine? The answer is moving, in other words, having the
West Coast population. The West Coast is small enough as it is let alone halving it. So think
twice about stopping mining on conservation land.

By Pippa Yr 7