Original sentence: Alarmed at the campaign against European settlement in Taranaki, and the lack of government response to this campaign, the people of Hawera declared themselves the "Republic of Hawera" , and formed their own volunteer units to oppose Te Whiti.Bolger stated that New Zealand's links with Britain were in decline, and that the country should acknowledge that "the tide of history is moving in one direction".For example, residents of the Taranaki town of Whangamomona declared their town a "republic" in 1989 to protest at the government's re-drawing of regional administrative boundaries, a protest group in Aramoana declared their town the Independent State of Aramoana in protest against proposals for an aluminium smelter in that town.He continued to publish a pro-republic broadsheet entitled The Republican, although the topics covered related to left-wing issues, not republicanism.The term "republic" has been used in a pejorative sense in New Zealand to describe an area independent of the central government
Edited sentence: Alarmed at the campaign against European settlement in Taranaki, and the lack of government response to this campaign, the people of Hawera declared themselves the "Republic of Hawera," and formed their own volunteer units to oppose Te Whiti.Bolger stated that New Zealand's links with Britain were in decline, and that the country should acknowledge that "the tide of history is moving in one direction.He continued to publish a pro-republic broadsheet entitled The Republican, although the topics typically related to left-wing issues, not republicanism.Residents of the Taranaki town of Whangamomona declared their town a "republic" in 1989 to protest at the government's re-drawing of regional administrative boundaries, and a group in Aramoana declared their town the Independent State of Aramoana to protest against proposals for an aluminium smelter in that town.The term "republic" in New Zealand has been used as a protest and a pejorative against the central government and/or royalists and royalty, to describe an area independent of the central government