Dame Susan Devoy, our Race Relations Commissioner, and the Auckland Regional Migrants Services wants us Kiwis to refrain for wishing each other a Merry Christmas as it may offend some of our recent refugees and other immigrant's, and to use the term Season Greetings.

Next, Dame Sue will be telling us that it's inappropriate to sit down on Christmas Day to enjoy a traditional leg of ham, and a couple of beers or a glass of wine.

Subsequently, these PC people will be asking us to cease from having a Christmas Day picnic on the beach with ham and cheese sandwich, bacon and egg pie, or a barbecue of pork chop sand sausages, god forbid anyone wearing bathing costumes. Where would it all end? Seasons Greeting period, as Dame Sue wants us Kiwi's now to call it, rather than Christmas, probably started when Samuel Marsden gave his sermon in the Bay of Islands on Christmas Day 1814.

The Race Relations Commissioner and others who share the same view, need to take into account our 200 years of tradition, what about respecting our culture and traditions?

Having chosen to immigrate to NZ, they must have been aware that there is a different culture that exists. There is no need for this excessive sensitivity, if they should find NZ s not to their liking, like us, they have the right to leave at any time they wish.

Brian P Porter, Welcome Bay.