How quick some people are to attack Mary Brooks for stating the facts that most of us would like to say, but lack the courage. For Robin Bell to call her 'prejudiced” seems ridiculous as reading Mary's letter again from last week, all she has done is set out the special privileges given to Maori which the rest of us are paying for out of our taxes!
I do not know if Maori have rewritten the history books, but the truth is New Zealand was not 'invaded by the greedy, imperialistic forces.” Busby was sent in response to begging from Maori chiefs, to save them from other warring tribes.
I suggest Robin Bell checks his/her facts about what took place including the fact that Hone Heke went to England to beg King William for help. King William gave him presents which Hone flogged in Australia on his way back and then used the money to buy muskets with which he then slaughtered, unmercifully, members of other tribes - way before the Brits arrived.
It is good to know that Robin Bell's granddaughter was funded to go to University but who built the Universities plus schools, hospitals, roads, houses, sewage systems etc etc. Why, these 'greedy, imperialistic forces” of course!

C. Thompson, Tauranga.