Mayor Sandra Hazelhurst set a goal of making Hasting the first NZ city with total bi-lingual street signage!

The likelihood is signalled in the launch of the Hastings District Council’s Heretaunga Ararau Te Reo Māori Action Plan, which mayor Sandra Hazlehurst says “will help us to celebrate te reo Māori, along with the wider community”.

“This plan has an ambitious goal for Hastings to be a te reo Māori city by 2040 and its implementation will be guided by a Memorandum of Understanding with Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated,” she said in a prepared statement.

“The goal is to incorporate te reo Māori in more documents and forms, as well as the design and build of council projects, including planning for growth and the District Plan,” she said.

Almost simultaneously the Māori Party released a general election policy statement proposing “Pākehā place names” be replaced with their original “ingoa Māori” by 2026.

This is the senseless personal or social agendas some mayors think they must instigate. It seems to pervade many of our local bodies. It is no wonder maori develop an oversized sense of entitlement! It is nothing but virtue signalling!

This is complementary to my post yesterday.

Sandra Hazelhurst You Are Wrong, Wrong Wrong!!!