After living in the US for nearly 20 years I was shocked on return to New Zealand with the inroads the Māori population has made into this culture. Now I get some local body election papers in the mail asking me to vote on several different institutions around the Western Bay of Plenty.

Two of these are for Māori wards. What would they say if two of them were for Pākehā wards or councillors? ... No country is a country with split cultures fighting for supremacy. NZ must become a nation of one people, all in harmony with no special preferences for one or the other of the cultures. The Treaty of Waitangi called for equal rights for Māori and Pākehā. One cannot argue that ...

The demand on every school child to learn Māori is, in my view, a total waste of very important time at school ...Every Māori knows English, so no non-Māori ought to be forced to learn Māori. I fear for where all of this is headed.

Colin Stitt, Katikati