I wish to reply to two correspondents from last week.
Firstly, has Mary Brooks been out of the country? She states that it is refreshing that someone has finally mentioned the proposal by the Maori Party to lock us into a new written constitution with the Treaty of Waitangi at its centre.
There have been many letters written over many months about this very subject, including by myself.
The second correspondent I wish to reply to if I can catch him before he hits State Highway 2 on his way out of Tauranga is Gareth Joyce. He commented that we are an insular city with a racist underbelly.
The 'bleating” about the treaty is well-founded, if he would only really read what people are saying.
He might realise that nothing of it is about the people who are our neighbours, friends, workmates.
It is totally about the tribal elite who are arranging that they have all the power in New Zealand through the written constitution currently underway behind the closed door of the Maori Party aided and abetted by the National Party who are desperate to keep their support.
They plan to entrench the Treaty of Waitangi as superior law. Only iwi have been consulted about this. The other 85% of us are being treated like mushrooms and you know what they are fed!
My dictionary (Chambers) defines racism as 'belief in the inherent superiority of a particular race or races, discriminatory treatment based on such a belief”
Consider the ludicrous claims being made in the name of the treaty - the electronic spectrum is the latest. They are separatists who wish to enshrine Maori privilege in the upcoming written constitution. Perhaps Gareth Joyce may then consider who the racists really are?

Robin Bishop, Pyes Pa.