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//**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

My old person 20/5/10

This old man had a very hard life starting from when he was ten. From his grey hair at the top of his head to his scrunched toes at the bottom. His bald and wrinkly head with his bright blue eyes are still shining after his hard life. He is a short man with a glass eye. His tragic story started when he was ten his parents died in an airplane they were heading back from being away for a week they had delayed there flight because of the bombing there. Albert was waiting day after day for his parents to return and they just never did. Being only ten he was moved into an orphanage in England. The orphanage was a nice orphanage but because of the bombing it was full of children and the chance of getting adopted was getting slimmer and slimmer. Later on he was adopted and he moved to New Zealand to live with his step family. They were a nice old bunch and they tried to help poor Albert settle in nicely. Albert was a funny boy he had trouble settling into his school work and didn't get along with many other boys. One day at school he was caught smoking some marijuana in the bush the teachers dragged him out and whipped him several times. That made Albert feel unloved and he started to not trust people so easy from then on. Most times after schools Albert used to work on his step parents farm helping with the tractor work and sorting up of the animals. Albert always new he was doing high school but he said he would give it a chance to please his step parents. He dropped out of school when he was 16 and went to work in his neighborhood bakery. The bakert was a quite placeand Albert used to get board easy. He then meet Dorothy sparkle which became the sparkle in his life. Married at the age of 25 having no good job, having no education and a baby on the way. He quit the bakery to take over his step parents family farm. This started a new life for Albert he became a very well respected man and a great farmer. His baby was born on a sunny after noon on the 25th march it was a beautiful girl they called her Brooke. Albert and his wife then went into a hospital at the age of 73 because they both had a brain tumor and they could not look after themselves. Albert & Dorothy died a week later on the 30th. Albert died a nice, happy man and his kid Brooke will always remember him for that.

By Meg Cowie

** //__**ABOUT ME**__// ** My name is Meg Cowie and I am thirteen years old. I live in Tuapeka west with my mum my dad two sisters and one brother. My mum works in Balclutha as an accountant at Shand Thomson. My oldest sister Bridget is just going into her first year at university. She is boarding at Unicol which is a boarding place in Dunedin. At the moment I am boarding at Tolcarne in Dunedin and am going to St hildas, I am in year nine. My older sister Becky is in year 12 at St Hilda's to, Adam my brother is in year 11 at Johnny's.

I live on a sheep ,beef and deer farm on our farm we have nine hundred acres. My dad works on the farm. I remember one lambing me and my friend were out doing a lambing beat with dad and I heard a little lamb stuck down a rabbit hole and I sore the mother was around looking for it. I told dad about it but he said it didn't matter so me and my friend went back got some shovels and shoveled the little lamb out of the rabbit hole we had to be careful that we didn't push the lamb further down the hole in the end we got the lamb out it was alive and the mother came and got it. My Dad has three farm dogs one girl dog called Misty, two boy dogs called Jill and Mac. Mac and Jill are yard dogs and Misty is a hunter way. In the spring time on my farm I go out and help dad with the lambing.

Last year I was year eight at Clutha Valley primary School. I was at Clutha valley for 7 years I started when I was five and finished when I was thirteen. Our family owns a holiday house in Wanaka we go up there for most holidays. In Wanaka we go boating out at dublin bay or go to have a shot. In the winter I like to play Rugby and netball as my sports in the winter. I like to go to treble cone and go snowboarding with my mates in the winter. '

Our family has been on some holidays to Australia the last couple of years, we went to the gold coast and went to wet and wild and movie world. Our family has also be in a camper van up the north island. We went with another family. We started at wellington and went just up past Auckland that took about 11 days to do we stayed at the top 10 holiday parks along the way. When we were driving through the days it was really good because we could lie down and you didn't have to wear a safety belt.

I no I am so lucky to have my family and I love then very much.

Meg Cowie


 * Wanaka**

Sometimes when the sun is out the boat goes out for the day across the light lake water is where we like to be

We travel out there by our car and then into the boat we pack our lunch for the day as we love to be out late

After our fun day boating we love to get back and relax we sit outside in the sun eat food and have drinks

The next day if the weathers bad we go down into town to have a look around the shops and buy some food as well

Wanaka its as perfect as a dream paradise. By Meg Cowie