R.E. Stephens wrote of the compulsory co-governance boards which the government has decreed are to be set up on all regional and district boards.
This legislation is so far-reaching that surely it should have been taken to the ratepayers to be given the option of co-governance - and as John Key well knows, it would not have had a dog's show of being implemented. Now it appears that 15% of the population, with a vote count of less than 2% at the last general election, will have 50% of the council decision-making, and we, the ratepayers will be stuck with the continuing expense - forever! Democratically, the numbers do not add up.
Perhaps, a call to our Race Relations Conciliator on behalf of the other 85% of the population who will pay for ever for this racist legislation.

R. Bishop, Pyes Pa.