Blinded by the white • Speaker • Public Address
Tahu Potiki's columns gave the impression of a compliant buffoon, who'd occasionally leaven his plodding support for the moneyed end of town with a little antediluvian homespun philosophy. Here he is calling for the death of the elephant who accidentally killed her keeper. Fortunately more civilised heads prevailed, and she's currently able to spend her days in the company of her own kind. Potiki's tame columns made him an ideal token Maori presence in the Press's reactionary stable of opinion-smiths. Now that the big establishment money's jumped the First Four Ships for the Ngai Tahu whaka ...
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