Letter writer T Fellingham makes many valid points about the part-Maori radicals who are calling the tune on our water-rights.

Tauranga MP Simon Bridges says the Government has made it clear no-one owns water and Maori will never claim ownership of water. David Round of NZCPR says that the Government has been working covertly with the tribes on sneaking water-control clauses into water-management plans. NZ First MP Clayton Mitchell says that putting water into tribal hands is just another step towards selling off our assets.

Certainly, there are proposed new changes to the Resource Management Act which will give tribes ‘sweeping new rights' to be involved in resource planning.

I am reliably told that from their ‘komiti meetings', Maori are demanding the means to express economic interests in freshwater and a guarantee of freshwater and infrastructure to every marae. They also have a raft of other demands including, I believe, a $1 billion funding of public money to implement fresh water management and control. So they are planning to make money out of us.

My unease is directed at those who people the Maori Sovereignty Movement, aka The Maori Party, who are creating such a divisive society, and who are really just radicals in suits. I was born here so I'm as indigenous as the next person. We are really all just New Zealanders, some have Maori ancestry, some have European, Pacific Island, or Asian bloodlines. We are all boat people regardless of when we arrived.

We should all simply be Kiwis with the same rights and privileges, and the subject of water allocation should not even see the light of day.

R Bishop, Tauranga City.