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11 Th. may 1860

Dear Governor Grey

I am writing to you because there has been some impact on new zealand as a result of new immigration that needs to be put under control.

Maori have lost control of the land. The Maori have lost control of the land because so many Europeans have immigrated to new zealand this is important because if this continues new zealand may end up like england full of diseases & over populated.

Maori also have caught a lot of diseases from the europeans that they have brought over from England.The Europeans have been immunized against these diseases because they have been in England for a long time. Because of this some Maori have died from diseases.

The Maori have lost land.For instance New immigration are cutting down a lot of native forest & bush which effects the wild life living in it this is to make space for farms for the Europeans to make supplies to send over to England (e.g. Wool) because they have no space to make it them selfs as England is so over populated. The trees that they cut down are used to make house for them & as more & more Europeans come over more & more houses are built which means lots more trees will be cut down.

As more Europeans come to new zealand more Maoris will get ill, more trees & wild life will be destroyed & Maoris will lose more land.

Rachel Horn

 Rachel horn Hi my name is Rachel horn and I am 13 years old and was born on the 9th of january 1997 in my family I am the oldest out of 3 children I have 2 other sisters there names are kate who is 11 & Emma who is 8 I also live with my mum & dad whose names are Ruth & Jim. We live in waverly Dunedin. I also have a gran & grandad & a nana & popa & on my dads side of the family I have 2 cousins called georgia & reece & on my mums side I have 6 cousins. I also have cat called Ozzie.

Before I came to St. hildas I went to tahuna normal intermediate school for two years & before that I went to grants Braes primary school in waverly.

In my spare time I like to hang around with my friends play some sports like athletics & on a thursday after school I do an hour of swimming, This year at school I am playing volleyball. With athletics me & my family went to Invercargill for the collgate games which was in january 2009 & I got a silver medal for high jump.

In the holidays Me & my family go to a small town near Mt. cook village called Twizel. In Twizel we go to Lake ruitanwha with our friends, go on bike rides & some times me & my dad go in the mountains When I was ten my dad took me & my sister kate up to mulla hut & at the start of 2010 we went up buy hooker hut.

In the school holidays me & my family sometimes go to wanaka in the winter to go skiing at cadrona but last time we went my mum broke her leg & was brought back to Dunedin in a helicopter.

When I was 8 me & my family went to gold coast Australia when we were there we went to dream world & sea world. That was the first time I had been over seas since then I have been to Australia again but this time I went with my friend Tabitha & her mum Ellen & we went to see our friend Elle who had moved to Australia.

When I was at Tahuna I was chosen to go to auckland with a group of other people from my school we were billeted out by people from a school in auckland called Remuara Each day for a week we went about auckland looking at all the attractions like the sky tower, Kelly Tarltos & rainbows end.

 Old Person description <span style="font-family: Fineliner Script,cursive;"> My grandmother Desiree Douglas was a kind old lady nobody new much about her as she was a quite person. She lived in a quiet street in a quite town in New Zealand. She had soft white curls on her head & her skin was very white & wrinkled, she wore a pair of huge rounded glasses which magnified her light blue eyes & spiky eye lashes, she had plastic hearing aids which stuck out from her delicate ears. Desiree wore droopy old cardigans with dull plain pants & white sneakers.

<span style="font-family: Fineliner Script,cursive;"> Desiree had lived in England for 10 years with her husband Abe who had passed away just last year from cancer. Desirees house was in a dreadful state, there were vines growing all over the wooden boards that her home was made of, there were weeds growing in her spouting, there were dead flowers in her garden, inside her house the walls were covered in a horrible floral pattered wallpaper & her dusty porch was creaking & squeaking as she swayed back & forth on her wooden rocking chair & would knit, the clicking of her knitting needles & the creaking of the floor boards was all you could hear in the dead silence of her home.

<span style="font-family: Fineliner Script,cursive;"> Desiree & Abe had 3 glorious children called Josephine, Priscilla & Theodore, & have 7 young grandchildren which she sees once a month.

<span style="font-family: Fineliner Script,cursive;"> When Desiree was younger she worked as a nurse at the hospital.

<span style="font-family: Fineliner Script,cursive;"> Desiree loved cats as any old lady would she had 4 of which she took care of very well. Most days Desiree wouldn't no what to do so she would sit on her porch with her cats & knit away making all kinds of wonderful things for her grandchildren like scarfs, gloves & jumpers.

<span style="font-family: Fineliner Script,cursive;"> On the evenings she would watch the sun set on her porch while her knitting needles clicked away.