***CDNA [TM]*** Goodbye One Tree Hill. Mike Smith, that great modern Maori vandal who for 'cultural' and 'political' reasons tried but failed due to incompetence [the chain-saw got stuck in the truck of the tree] to cut down the tree on One Tree Hill several years ago, can right now watch a helicopter removing the tree, limb by limb.
It is old and was already in poor condition before Mike Smith [you can correctly guess that some of his Maori ancestors decided that a spot of DNA blending was in order] decided a spot of compulsory euthanasia was in order to demonstrate resistance to what he and a "Maaori" MP have called 'The Holocaust' in an absurd comparison with the horror visited on Jews and others in Germany during the Nazi reign when the word 'holocaust' meant something.
There was NO holocaust visited by Europeans on Maoris. There was low-level sporadic conflict involving casualties on both sides with many Maoris fighting on the European side against traditional enemies. Maoris traded land for muskets and set about getting a LOT more land by genocide against neighbouring tribes. Hongi Hika being the most notorious butcher of the 19th century, killing thousands during a rampage into the Bay of Plenty. There was no way he could eat all those people, so it wasn't for hunger that he did it. Hongi's Holocaust was the biggest, though they almost finished off the Moriori in the Chatham Islands after attacking them from Taranaki.
Disease in the 19th century was disastrous when introduced measles and other diseases were a disaster for hordes of people, including Europeans who continued to have a low life expectancy going into the 20th century. But measles and tuberculosis are not holocausts; they might be a plague or pestilence. The 'holocaust' word is used to impute ill motive to the Europeans.
Anyway, there is no longer a tree on One Tree Hill. A guy was up the tree with a chainsaw and he would tie a rope onto a limb, the helicopter would fly up, drop in a skyhook and he'd loop the rope on. The helicopter would fly up, taking the load, then he'd cut through the limb. The helicopter would then fly down the mountain a few hundred metres to drop the limb off.
The tree lasted for 180 years. They suddenly decided to remove it, announcing the decision yesterday late afternoon. Thousands of people crowded up the mountain to walk around and take a last look at dusk. It has really dominated the city for a century.
It's fitting that it go in Y2K, ready for the 21st century of renewal.
It had seen a lot of action over the century.
Let's hope we have less Maori DNA nonsense and move onto CDMA and CDNA [TM], which is Cyber DNA = DNA by design using modern technology to get great blends. Telecom New Zealand is in the process of installing CDMA across the country as you read this [if you are reading it in Y2K]. NZ's long-running 3G spectrum auction here: auction.med.govt.nz
DNA here: vector.cshl.org
A view of the tree now gone [well, in another hour it will all be gone]:
url.co.nz
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