The Maori party is looking at putting a bill through parliament which will get the support from Labour, Green and Mana parties allowing MP's to pledge to uphold the Treaty of Waitangi at the swearing in ceremony. The treaty was the initial means of getting the majority of the chiefs (540) to give up their territories to Queen Victoria so Queen Victoria could form a legal Government under British Sovereignty. Queen Victoria and her Heirs then became our head of State from then on. The Minister must swear their alliance to the Head of State, not a document that did what it was intended to do in 1840.

Ian Brougham, Wanganui.