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Children employed as employees were considerably better off (than self-employed contractors). They received holiday and sick pay, age-appropriate relief workers, clothing and bike allowances, the most effective information and oversight of health and safety conditions, and the most direct contact with employers. In contracting situations, these employment rights were mostly absent,’ Lisa Beech said.
St Josephs School Upper Hutt celebrated Parihaka Day on 5 November with a number of events on the theme of peace including an enactment of the Parihaka encounter when government troops arrested the leaders of an ongoing nonviolent protest against land confiscations in 1881.
The history of Parihaka, and Tuhoe arrests in the Urewera may be a mystery to many older pakeha for whom history lessons at school comprised the kings of England and the European wars, but in Māori oratory tradition each detail would have been discussed at length on marae up and down the country.
When we try to live in stories that we impose closure on, we destroy part of ourselves and others – ‘We eliminate or distort relationships.’
Matthew’s gospel is followed in the new liturgical year. The opening genealogy places Jesus as Son of Abraham and of David. But we also hear of Mary, his mother, placed among some of the great women of Israel. It is on their stories that I would like to focus as Mary is blessed among these courageous figures.
Advent is a wonderful time, a time of many graces, of rich scripture passages to pray with and powerful images on which to reflect.
They were loathe to commit to specific beliefs but a theme that did recur was a commitment to gospel values and that they wanted their local church to be a community that modelled the living out of those values.
A movement to make 5 November a commemoration of Parihaka instead of Guy Fawkes gathered momentum on the Kapiti Coast last month with around 150 people talking peace at Whakarongotai Marae.
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