Re: ‘Disturbing lack of accurate knowledge' (The weekend Sun, February 24). R Paterson's has grave implications for our new Governor General, Dame Patsy Reddy, in how she carries out her vice-regal duties.

If, as she said in her opening address to the nation, she intends to carry out her duties to observe the unique partnership between the Crown and Maori, then her role in representing the Queen is redundant and she is superfluous to requirements.

If a subject can be a partner of the sovereign then Dame Patsy has no more official and legal standing than does the Chief of the Otahuhu chapter of the Mongrel Mob and the definitions of ‘sovereign' and ‘subject' as given in the Oxford Dictionary, are nonsense.

B Johnson, Omokoroa.