Tuesday October 23 TV3 News reported $320,000 plus legal aid for Maori to go to court over the water ownership issue. This is disgusting. I know of a Pakeha, not long ago, needing legal aid over a relatively minor court case in Tauranga. This was refused because the person, on National Superannuation, owned her place of residence. Nowhere else to live, so how could this ownership impinge on her right to legal aid? Beggars belief!

Barry H Walker, Mt Maunganui.