Re: In response to Peter Dey's letters in Western BOP media. The Waitangi Tribunal is a racist rort, set up by government, for purely political reasons, to appease a very vocal minority of part-Maori Treaty revisionists. Check the members' affiliations.

A tribunal who rubber-stamp every application for Maori claims without any verification required. No claim is refused. Racist? Yes, because it only considers the injustices claimed by 14 per cent of the population. The remaining 86 per cent of us have not been provided by, government, recourse to the injustices wrought on early settlers, such as the multi-sales by Maori of land that they never owned and the slaughter of settlers and devastation of their land by rebel factions. And, Mr Dey, they were rebels, against the Laws of the Land that their forebears had agreed to. Don't use the excuse of the naïveté of the Maori signatories.

You still have not provided a single valid instance of your claimed breaches of the Treaty. Just your same old waffle.

It is ridiculously anachronistic to compare present day concepts to those pertaining 175 years ago. ‘Breach of Contract?' Bah! Humbug!

B Johnson, Omokoroa.