Letter+to+governor+Gray

//**Dear governor Gray**//

I am writing to you because I am concerned on all the new immigrants traveling into New Zealand to live. It is a real issue to me that we are letting all these people come.

The reason why I think this is because when there was a sudden increase in population. New Zealand was struggling with producing enough food to feed all of us. This also concerned me because New Zealand had hardly enough houses for all these people to live. An example of this was when 850 people were brought over on ships thinking they will have a better life over here, only to find out that they had to live in poverty because New Zealand had hardly enough stuff for all of them.

Another reason was when they cut down all the trees in the native forest to build houses for the 850 people that came over on the ships. This caused all the birds to fly away or in most cases die. This really took affect on our wildlife here and that is why we have to look after the wildlife because they are starting to fade away. We didn't want to cut down much of the bush because we didn't want it to become a cramped country like England.

Maori was another big factor in all of this with the amount of land lost that they suffered through this period of time. We europeans were really lucky that the maori did come and they started the building of the houses. We did not respect this and by letting all the people come over and take there jobs leaving them with nothing as they could not read or write.

With all this that happened around us I think we should have taken action and limit the people coming into New Zealand as we don't want things to worsen, we want them to get better. We need to appreciate the Maori and help them because they have helped us in so many different ways. They were the start of New Zealand and for that we need to thank them, not take jobs away from them.

Yours sincerely Meg Cowie