Denis Hall: Renaming New Zealand's modern cities

The modern cities of Auckland - - Hamilton and Wellington - Christchurch and Dunedin - and the smaller ones of - Napier Hastings - New Plymouth - Palmerston North - Nelson - do not owe their existence in any way to Maori or Maori culture.

They - like so many smaller towns in New Zealand are representative of - and at the most fundamental level - entirely the product of the European culture and enterprise and investment and work ethic and technology and tradition and plain hard work - that took more than - in some places - two hundred years to build.

European culture, hard work and enterprise created them - with no cultural help from anywhere.