I have just read two persons ideas concerning ‘Maori Rights' on water and wind ways. I have a very different view point .
Firstly, who has anyone, of any nationality, of any background, the right to criticise the concerns of an ethnic race? Europeans whose forbears came to invade, conquer and dwell in the actual homeland of this people must consider their non rights.
The European have much to be regretful of the world over.
Look at India. The arrogance of the English. Look at Africa. The despicable acts of the Dutch. Look at Germany and their devastating defiling of Jewish people.
The time has come to put behind the disgustful privileges generations of ‘white New Zealanders' have allocated them selves. To stop complaining of the rights of the true inhabitants and to accept they are the intruders who are still allowed to live in this beautiful country and call it their homeland.
How clever the Fijians were: They remain the ‘Landlords and owners of their land' all other inhabitants, Indians and Europeans simply lease commercial land. Therefore the Fijian people own the land, the waterways and the wind.
Come on New Zealanders, you are too much of a now combined intermarried group. Twenty years hence we all will be Maori? European? Maybe ‘Maeropean' Good name eh?

Alys Ingrid Wicksteed.