As an immigrant from Scotland who has been in NZ for 50 years, I was interested to hear on the radio last week that the net intake of immigrants for the past year was 13,000.
I wonder if through your paper you could get a breakdown of the nationalities of the said immigrants so that the general public has some idea of what the country is buying into.
I recall Enoch Powell warning the UK what would happen if they continued to allow free reign on immigration from India, Pakistan and the West Indies.
It certainly came true over there and we note that the British terrorists are in the main third generation Pakistanis.
I believe that if we think that the same type of terrorism will not eventually descend on NZ, we are in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
It may not be in my lifetime but it will be in the lifetimes of my children and grandchildren.
I'm not sorry to say that I do not have a PC bone in my body and I was sorry for Paul Henry's treatment. Love him or hate him, he was badly treated.
Ian Stephenson, Te Puke.

Editor's note: Emigrate NZ reports the top nine countries of birth of migrants to NZ in 2006:
England 202,401; China 78,117; Australia 62,742; Samoa 50,649; India 43,344; South Africa 41,676; Fiji 37,746; Scotland 29,016; South Korea 28,806; Netherlands 22,101.