Peter Sharples from the Maori Party is calling on New Zealanders to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi and to remind people that they are the Tangata Whenua.

He goes on to say that Te Tiriti o Waitangi remains our founding document.

How wrong can he be, Peter Sharples has never researched the truth. My firs point is while Te Tiriti o Waitangi is the only treaty, the Government and Maori have never honoured it as there is no mention of partnership, principles, foreshore, forests, fisheries, seabed or customary rights.

What the Government and Maori have been doing is using a false English draft to make claims against the people of New Zealand.

My second point is Maori are not the Tangata Whenua, Dr Ranginui Walker and Ngapuhi chief David Rankin have stated that Maori are not indigenous to New Zealand.

Also the traditions are clear that wherever crews disembarked there were already Tangata Whenua there.

My third point is the Te Tiriti o Waitangi was never our founding document, as research has found.

Queen Victoria's Royal Charter dated 16th December 1840 was our 'true” founding document and 'first” constitution.

Ian Brougham, Wanganui.