Peter Dey claims Roger Baileys' statement that grassroots Maori are not getting the assistance they deserve from Treaty settlements, lacks evidence.
As an example, may I suggest that with 90% of prison inmates being unable to read or write, and 51% of them being Maori, out of 15% population, we see little evidence of assistance in that area.
He further claims that R. McGuinness's statement with regard to the English Treaty being a false document is not true. He is right about the 39 odd signatures, but Hobson's signature and seal were never on it originally. It was only when electronics became so sophisticated around the end of the 1990's that the seal and signature could be moved from another document to authenticate it.
We should be grateful that Maori cannot seem to silence Mr Dey. The hole he digs keeps collapsing on him and in so doing the public are continually made more aware of the desperation of the story telling.

W. Lawrence, Tauranga.