1 October 2008. Email, rossbaker@austarnet.com.au

Ms. Beverley Wakem,
Chief Ombudsman,
Ombudsmen's Office,
Wellington,
New Zealand.

Dear Ms. Wakem,

RE: Official Complaint into the Conduct of the Maori Affairs Select Committee

The One New Zealand Foundation Inc would like to make an Official Complaint to the Ombudsman's Office into the corrupt conduct of the Maori Affairs Select Committee that heard the Submissions into the Te Roroa Settlement Bill for the following reasons.

1. Some members of the Maori Affairs Select Committee were either related to Te Roroa (the claimants) or had a vested interest in this claim. Pita Paraone, a member of the Select Committee who is directly related to Te Roroa, as is Tau Henare, stated, "All Maori are whanau". People related to Te Roroa or with a vested interest in this claim should not have been on this Select Committee; they should have stood down. The conduct and outcome of this Select Committee is evidence enough, they acted in a corrupt manner to allow the Te Roroa Settlement Bill to proceed and eventually, be passed by Parliament.

2. This claim has been referred to many times as a racial claim. The Maori Affairs Select Committee consisted of eight Maori and one non-Maori. A very racially biased Select Committee, hearing submissions into a racial claim.

3. At the First Reading of the Te Roroa Settlement Bill, the Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations, Hon Mark Burton misled Parliament by stating the majority (approximately 3000) of Te Roroa had voted for the Deed of Settlement, but Te Roroa's historian, Garry Hooker told the Select Committee hearing at Dargaville, "Only 100 genuine Te Roroa - plus 18 children under 10 had signed the Deed of Settlement". The Maori Affairs Select Committee completely ignored this very important statement by Mr Hooker in their report to Parliament.
4. At the Second Reading of the Bill, the Maori Affairs Select Committee misled, lied to Parliament that the One New Zealand Foundation's submission was not heard because of bad language. There was no bad language in the One New Zealand Foundations submission and I personally presented it on the 10 May 2007. The reason the Maori Affairs Select Committee misled Parliament, the contents of the One New Zealand Foundation's submission, mainly consisting of documents obtained under the Official Information Act, did not agree with the findings of the Waitangi Tribunal, the Crown or the claimants. Other submission (8) opposing the Bill, were also suppressed by the Maori Affairs Select Committee's report to Parliament. They knew if Parliament was told the truth, the Bill would have been rejected!!!

Hansard, Tau Henare -'Then there were the ugly submissions-the ugly submissioners. In all my time in the House-to some it is not long; to some it may be far too long-I had never ever seen submissions like I saw in the Te Roroa settlement process. These ugly submissions were full of language that even I-from South Auckland, from Otara-baulked at when I read them. Not a lot worries me; not a lot phases me. Those submissions from Allan Titford and the One New Zealand Foundation did. I am glad to say there was a unanimous decision in the select committee to make sure, that we would not hear those submissions because of the language. So I say kia ora to my colleagues on the select committee'.

The One New Zealand Foundation has written letters of complaint to the Prime Minister, the Speaker of the House, the Minister of Maori Affairs
and Chairman of the Maori Affairs Select Committee; that the Maori Affairs Select Committee hearing the Te Roroa Settlement Bill misled
Parliament, but they all refused to take action. It is a crime to mislead Parliament.

5. At the Third Reading of the Bill, the Maori Affair Select Committee again lied to Parliament that the One New Zealand Foundation had sent "volcanic" emails and phone calls to members of the Select Committee or their families. This was again a lie to mislead Parliament and discredit the One New Zealand Foundation Inc and the information/submissions the Foundation has presented over the years.

The Crown, the Waitangi Tribunal or the claimants do not have one document of evidence to over-rule the Deed of Conveyance showing Tiopira Kinaki and Parore te Awha sold this land "willingly" in 1876. Te Roroa have continued to mislead the public and the Crown over many years to again steal this land they failed to steal in 1874 from Parore, but no more so than they and their "whanua" misled Parliament at the Second and Third Readings of this Bill.

We request the Ombudsman's to fully investigate the Maori Affairs Select Committee's handling of the Submissions presented to them, the people

involved on this Maori Affairs Select Committee, their relationship to Te Roroa and the way they misled Parliament to suppress any submission that did not agree with Te Roroa's history or the findings of the apartheid, Waitangi Tribunal.

This Bill must be stopped before it is given its "Royal Assent"; it is corrupt!!

The Governor General, the Honourable Anand Satyanand must be notified of this complaint/investigation and suspend the Te Roroa Settlement Bill being given its "Royal Assent", until an investigation into the corrupt conduct of the Maori Affairs Select Committee is completed by the Ombudsman's Office. It must be remembered, this Bill involves Her Majesty the Queen. Part of the land in this settlement, was acquired by Her Majesty the Queen from Allan Titford and Don Harrison under very dubious circumstances. Please forward this letter on to the Governor General, the Honourable Anand Satyanand

Please acknowledge receipt of this complaint. Hard copy to follow by Australian Post.

Yours sincerely,

Ross Baker.

Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc.

cc. Allan and Sue Titford.
Webmaster, One New Zealand Foundation Inc, www.onenzfoundation.co.nz