In a renewed effort to turn the tide of racial tolerance, R Paterson and the Andersons continue to misguide and misinform.

In the Weekend Sun January 24 edition, Paterson claims wrongly Maori control parliament, saying 'Maori are un-elected self-invited visitors”and the powhiri is simply a welcoming ceremony, nothing more nothing less; a token recognition of local iwi who represent the indigenous people of NZ.

In a recent Colmar Brunton poll 75 per cent were proud or very proud of Maori culture. Paterson clearly sits with the 23 per cent not at all proud, hardly the majority he claims to speak for.

Likewise, to respond to the Anderson's letter ‘Small party's big influence', Pita Sharples was not only a member of the Maori Party, he was a Minister.

He signed the UN declaration on our behalf, before we became the only nation not to. Finally, the Constitutional Review was not 'ethnically- loaded”. It had no 'power” to 'entrench” a constitution or anything else. It was formed to inform and to gauge opinion. It found little support for change. These machinations only serve an extremist position.

Robin Bell, Pyes Pa.