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@nostrildamus said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@jc right, I should know that, thanks.
NB what is wrong with a bit of night-time embossing with the Napier Wahine?Not much, apart from I understand she was a maid and he knocked her up. That's quite often frowned upon in polite society.
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@canefan said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@snowy said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@williethewaiter said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
"because they're not Maori they're racist".
Brilliant, so they are going to make them racist.
But it's reverse racist. So that's OK 👌
I believe the current terminology is 'anti-fascist.
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@jc said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@nostrildamus said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@williethewaiter I don't know which Colenso you are talking about but the S African one was famous as it was a battle in the Boer War... but you must know who Bishop Selwyn is/was...?
The Colenso after which loads of places are named in NZ is William Colenso. He was the printer who printed the Treaty of Waitangi, and who was responsible for the definitive account of the Treaty signing. Ironically he may have been one of the most deserving of all the people celebrated in school house names etc. Apart from his fling with one of the local wahine here in Napier which was, you know, a bad thing.
nope. bunch of nobodies unless it's his missus or someone. All seem to be names pretty connected with the immediate area and the local mission.. these are the 4 punters the school house names come from.
The first Bishop of the Mission was Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, who tragically died during an incident at the island of Nukapu in 1871 along with the missionary the Rev. Joseph Atkin. The work of the Mission continued under the second Bishop John Richardson Selwyn (son of the Mission’s founder). A notable member of the mission at that time was Elizabeth Colenso who taught at the mission between 1876 and 1898.
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@williethewaiter said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
I believe John (JR) was the son of George Bishop
Legacy (NZ and UK) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Selwyn_(bishop_of_Lichfield)#Legacy -
yeh sounds like it. No idea who they are but point is sounds like a good local connection to the school so no need to change names.
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@williethewaiter So named after Cocksman Colenso's wife then?
Who knew that the Far North was so overrun with bishops back in the 1800s.
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@jc said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
@williethewaiter So named after Cocksman Colenso's wife then?
Who knew that the Far North was so overrun with bishops back in the 1800s.
Pompallier House, man! New Zealand's first rammed earth building, I believe. The 1800s up north had it going on..
oh you were being sar-cas-tic.
I get it. But not everyone knows Russell was the capital. -
My mother came from Gore and one of my oldest friends comes from Gore.
They got out quickly.
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@nostrildamus said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
Pompallier House,
Think that was the name of my house at school in Lower Hutt.
To think I had a racist education.
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@victor-meldrew was it Catholic?
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Yep
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@nostrildamus said in F off with the damn PC Brigade:
But not everyone knows Russell was the capital.
Okiato really. "Pedant" but they have a sign up so better give them their due.
Russell was known as the hell hole of the pacific. Full of whalers /sailors looking for hookers who were available I believe. Likely to have have been a fun town. Was there last week and it seems to have quietened down a bit. I think that there was a sailor but he wasn't my type and the hookers were completely absent.
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@snowy Another thing COVID is to blame for. Used to be a little knocking shop in the street between York and the waterfront (never have known what it's called) There was an old junk shop - next to it was a half shop with a door that was always curtained off.
Relied on the Cruise ships apparently and has had to shut up shop but until very recently the spirit of Kororareka lived on. Allegedly
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@snowy was basically lawless, they had to get Busby??? over from NSW to try and instill some civility into the locals (everyone - whalers, whores, Maori) which lead to the Treaty.
If you are ever in Waitangi, the interactive Museum there is well worth the hour or so, Pompallier House in Russell is a good visit too.
Learn how a number of sayings that came from the printing industry (can never remember them) such as Upper and Lower case letters, purely cos they were kept in an 'upper' case and a 'lower' case.
F off with the damn PC Brigade