Robin Bell in a letter of 26 April, accuses someone of 'distorting history simply to gain brownie points”. Yet the same writer earlier claimed that Maori sailed the oceans at a time when Europeans navigated in oracles [sic] and believed the world was flat.
Sounds like distorting history to gain brownie points to me. Google 'the myth of the flat earth” and learn some history.

R.Rimmer, Tauranga.