People who accuse the Labour Party of racism over Auckland house sale figures are misleading us. The Labour Party did not say that overseas Chinese should not be allowed to buy Auckland houses but everybody else can. That would be racist, but Labour has never said that.

Labour figures show simply that about 40% of house buyers in Auckland are Chinese buyers who are not on the New Zealand electoral roll, and therefore not resident New Zealanders. That is quite clear and at present is the most convenient way of indicating the size of overseas sales.

The Government can produce absolutely no evidence that the Labour Party figures are wrong, and it has made no attempt itself to get accurate figures for house sales to overseas buyers, which it should have. The problem of overseas buyers, of all nationalities, needs addressing and the Government has not addressed it.

We do not want to sell our country to overseas buyers. The present Government does not seem to care.

P Dey, Welcome Bay