Bad luck S Quaddel (‘Ill-informed rant shows battle bias', The Weekend Sun, May 9), no ill-informed rant here, what you read was a short factual history of Gate Pa which probably didn't suit you.
You will come to realise some in Tauranga/Bay of Plenty are made of sterner stuff.

By all means stick with your revisionist viewpoint and Belich's writings on NZ history, that's your prerogative – however just remember around 80 per cent of Kiwis are not with you on this one.

All I have written about Gate Pa is factually correct and let me repeat, a 13-day extravaganza (when a one-day commemoration would do) voluminous publicity and the $650,000 spend up from community taxpayers and ratepayers funds is preposterous.

R Paterson, Matapihi.