Re: News article ‘Familiarising with the forefathers’, page 18-19, The Weekend Sun, August 11.

It is fitting that ex-Mayor Tunks should be remembered by a postage stamp of a reserve at the top of Elizabeth St. He was a second generation colonial who prospered by helping our community form.  That was almost exactly the reward for Te Mete Raukawa and Potaua Tangitu. They were 30 generation old colonials who welcomed new immigrants and their skills to this fruitful land. They and their Pirirakau relatives were left with a postage stamp of land too.

Rihari Paikatoa, Gate Pa.