Paramount Chief Te Peeti Te Awe Awe of Rangitaane Iwi.

Palmy is littered with talismans in the Square.  Most are artistic, many are a sign of the times.  The one I want to highlight is Chief Te Peeti Te Awe Awe statue.  Forget the Pakeha Iwi that came later, we have a city father that is largely unheralded (We never had his  deeds in history at high school)

He lived in the Manawatu area with his hapu/whanau/moko.  He somehow saw the coming of Pakeha as a blessing and he gifted land now called Te Papaioea for the purposes of a city.  I'd really like to find out why Palmy grew so quickly along with Hamilton two landlocked cities??

Anyway back to our paramount chieftain - he was very wise as he specified that a central area (now called the Square) be gifted for the recreational use of the cities citizens.  I believe the Deed Of Gift precluded commercial use of the parkland.  Herein lies the troubles Palmy is suffering.  Thankfully his statue faces east so he doesn't have to look over his gifted land with a God Awful council Administration Building -  which juts out into the Deeded land, not to mention this other bane, a concrete car park.

Ok off my Barrow!!  I was happened to walk in the Square today and stopped by Chiefy to read his statue and hello!!  There is something not quite right - have blown up the inscription for you to see.

Here is the tale of the tape (Click Here)

The anomaly if you can't see it is this. The New Zealand flag had been in for 4 years, replacing the Union Jack  Does anyone know why the "NZ Standard" to right has that configuration??

All I can say to his hapu, we have his back.