Letter writer Peter Dey suggests that working Maori have not been more disadvantaged since the grievance industry was born in 1975. How does he explain the latest statistics that show Maori fill over 50 per cent of the available beds in our prisons while Maori are only 15 per cent of our population?

In spite of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money that has gone into corporate Maori over the last 40 years, it is Maori who fill the largest percentage of all negative statistics in the justice, education, health and welfare ministries.

The law changes and government acts created, from 1975 up to the present, favouring Maori have proven to be in my opinion, the downfall of the ordinary New Zealand citizen.

Some educated radical Maori, with the assistance of universities, culturally-biased education, politicians and the legal system have created a racial divide that is a blot on this fair land.

MJ Anderson, Pyes Pa.