I guess, despite the rising tide of opposition to these continuing and sometimes amazing Maori claims, that there are still people out there who are undecided one way or another.
It may help them to note that John Logan Campbell, who gave One Tree Hill to Auckland, and the Nation, and thought highly of the Maori race, has the following words on the west side of the base that bears the obelisk above his grave on the summit.
They are carved into the stone and read: ‘In 1840 the Treaty of Waitangi was signed whereby the Maoris accepted the sovereignty of the British crown and were thereby secured in all their rights and privileges as British subjects.'
Plain and simple, and there for all to see if they wish, and don't tell Key and Co or the Maori Party, as they would rather that none of you were aware of such simple truth.

R McGuinness, Tauranga.