Via Facebook: Come on Brian (editor) get rid of the racist crap you publish week after week in the Letters to the Editor section.
What message are you sending to the younger generation? That it's okay to single out one race of people over another. I am referring to the constant barrage of insults and slander against Maori. This is the kind of rubbish that harbours hate amongst our people of New Zealand. Most of the so called 'facts” quoted by your writers are fictional as has been pointed out in the recent and distant past.
How would you like me to start pointing out the very real problems of Te Ao Pakeha? That's right…you wouldn't.
If people want to protect the rights of Water use for the benefi ts of all and future generations then let them because that is all its really about, Maori are not capitalists unlike pakeha which is why your readers are having a diffi cult time understanding the motive behind such a request. The whanau responsible for the claim are not trying to profit for themselves.
How would Maori possibly support a Marae if we were simply out for ourselves? Well we just couldn't.
Interestingly there are no letters about the four pakeha men at the head of a large financial corporation that misappropriated over $7 million of public money, nor are there any disgruntled writers disturbed about the $500 million AMI Insurance tax payer bail out, note:
AMI Insurance is a privately owned company. Seems to me there are worse things happening in our country and the energy these writers are summoning needs to be directed to more worthy causes.
Either that or they need to go outside, meet some people and get a life!

Tasha Tukaokao, Tauranga.

Editor's note: All readers are entitled to their opinions and we welcome the freedom of writers to express their views and their right to free speech. It would be a sad day when media censored its readers' views. - Brian.