Re: ‘Unproven facts' (The Weekend Sun, October 7).

MJ Anderson is quite wrong about Maori indigeneity. 'DNA testing, carbon dating, and archaeological evidence” all in fact point unequivocally to Polynesian ancestors of the Maori being the first settlers of New Zealand, about 700 years ago.

Kerry Howe's 2003 book ‘The quest for origins: who first discovered and settled New Zealand and the Pacific Islands?' and also a recent article by Matthew Wright in the ‘Listener' issue June 24, 2016, adequately disposes of the crypto-racist fantasies of earlier human settlement, which Anderson seems to have been reading.

J Coster, Kaimai.