We attended a meeting on March 15 at Trinity hotel, which the majority thought was to be on the reform of the fresh water issue.

Many had placed submissions on the topic and needed more information. On arrival it obviously was Maori-orientated, chaired by Wiri Gardiner, and we got told this was not an ordinary meeting, it was a hui and if we weren't comfortable with that we should leave now.

That was the vein of the meeting, totally controlled by Maori and certainly not a free-flowing informative meeting about the fresh water issue we went to learn about.

Now we see advertised for April 9 an Envirohub Regional Environment Network Hui - another meeting regarding work safe and other issues some of us need to know about.
But it's advertised as a hui again. Is this to be the norm now - hui that are geared for Maori, but which we the taxpayer fund?

If this country wants division and a revolution you are certainly going the right way about it, trying to ignore 86 per cent of the population, but make them pay for everything.

C Humphreys, Katikati