ONE NEW ZEALAND FOUNDATION INC
P. O. Box 1, Awanui, Northland, New Zealand. www.onenzfoundation.co.nz

25 August 2008.

Email, rossbaker@austarnet.com.au

Hon Michael Cullen,
Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations,
Parliament Building,
Wellington,
New Zealand.


Dear Sir,

Thank you for your letter dated the 19 August in response to my letter to the Prime Minister dated the 23 July 2008.

Your letter shows to what lengths the Government will go to lie to the people to cover the corruption within Government to allow this claim to proceed.

Correct, I did make both a written and verbal submission to the Maori Affairs Select Committee on the 2 May 2007 but the Select Committee lied to Parliament at the Bill's second reading that my submission was not heard because it contained bad language. This was a lie to suppress the true history of Te Roroa, their claim and the "corrupt" acquisition of Allan Titford's properties at Maunganui Bluff, where the Ombudsman found, the Crown Law Office or its agents, deliberately "tampered with" the documents.

Hansard: "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". Your letter confirms this was a lie.

There were nine other submissions against this Bill but no mention was made of them or their contents in the Maori Affairs Select Committee's recommendation. WHY?

Not only did the Maori Affairs Select Committee lie to Parliament, the majority of the Committee were related to Te Roroa or had a vested interest in this claim, a fact admitted by Maori Affairs Committee Member, Pita Paraone. This was brought to the attention of the Prime Minister, the Chairman of the Maori Affairs Select Committee, the Minister of Maori Affairs, the Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations and the Speaker of the House, but they all accepted this "corrupt" Maori Affairs Select Committee's recommendation and its lies. How corrupt was that!!

Sir, why are you and the Labour Government hell bent on destroying New Zealand with your unsubstantiated settlements which are completely contrary to the Tiriti o Waitangi and the documented history of New Zealand? It seems the Labour Party knows it will lose the election, so is inciting racial tension never seen in New Zealand before with these outrageous, unsubstantiated settlements.

Sir, the reason you consider a public inquiry into the Te Roroa Settlement not necessary, you know it would not stand up to public scrutiny like the majority of settlements you have made since taking office!!!


For your information, I have attached an article, which appears on our website, re the biased/racial Maori Affairs Select Committee's recommendation.
Yours sincerely,

Ross Baker.

Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc.

cc. Webmaster, www.onenzfoundation.co.nz. This letter may appear on our website.

TE ROROA SETTLEMENT BILL IS BASED ON BLATANT LIES AND RACISM
AND MUST NOT PROCEED TO ITS FINAL READING.

Tau, you openly lied to the people of New Zealand and Parliament by stating the following:

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'.

Tau, you misled Parliament during your speech to the second reading of the Te Roroa Settlement Bill!!!

You stated in your speech, that because of bad language, the Maori Affairs Select Committee did not hear the One New Zealand Foundations Inc.’s Submission. This was a lie; the ONZF Submission was heard at Parliament on the 2 May 2007 and did not contain any bad language. A copy of our Submission can be viewed on www.onenzfoundation.co.nz

What a waste of time being on this Select Committee if you cannot even remember or don't want to remember which Submissions were heard. Still, not surprising from the arrogance you show in most things you do or say to intimidate people!!! Fortunately, it does not work with the ONZF, as we know your true colours and at times, they are not very good!!!

As for our submission not being that flash, maybe that's because it was the "truth", something you, the Government, the Select Committee and their Te Roroa mates did not want Parliament or the public to know. Yes, the “history” part of my submission was similar to Mr. Titford's, as it was to claimant Mr. Garry Hooker's letter (Number 9) in my submission and dated some 10 years before the claim was lodged. There is very little variation when "true" documented history is told. The rest of our Submission was pointing out how the Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations, the Rt. Hon. Mark Burton had also misled Parliament with his report at the Bill’s first reading, but this was completely ignored by the Maori Affairs Select Committee for obvious reasons.

We have asked the Government and the Waitangi Tribunal to produce documented evidence, many times over in the last 17 years, to substantiate this claim, but they have been unable to produce one document to date. Not one!!!! Even the Chairman of the Waitangi Tribunal, Chief Judge Eddie Durie admitted, claimants at that time were fabricating, altering and omitting evidence not helpful to their claim. (NZ Herald, 17/11/99)

Labour made the foolish and unfounded decision to agree to this claim in April 1990 without one thread of evidence (See 1 of the ONZF Submission, "Statement of Fact”) and National continued with it, which gave the Waitangi Tribunal no option but to find in the claimant’s favour in their report two years later. Since then, both Governments have continued to falsify documents and lie to the public to substantiate this claim without one document to substantiate it, but no more so than the Maori Affairs Select Committee.

It’s obvious, the truth in the opposing Submissions frightened the hell out of the "rigged" Maori Affairs Select Committee; otherwise they would have included those opposing Submission's content in their report. They did not; they only produced a "racially biased" report/recommendation supporting the Te Roroa Settlement Bill!!!

A Select Committee should not "select report" as they did in this instance. A Select Committee reads and listens to all the Submissions, then writes an "unbiased” report/recommendation for Parliament to base its decision on. This did not happen in this instance, they wrote a “racially biased” report in favour of Te Roroa's claim and the Te Roroa Settlement Bill.

Tau, we do “not live in a democracy” when a Select Committee is “rigged” and its Report is a "racial biased" report based solely on returning land to a group of New Zealand Citizens whose present day ancestry has very little, if any, historical affiliation to this land, This is borne out by the fact no opposing (I believe 9 in total) Submissions, giving the "true" history of this land, the claim and its claimants were included in the Selects Committees “racially biased” report, just those Submissions supporting the Te Roroa Settlement Bill.

No mention was made of the late respected Ngapuhi elder Graham Rankin's letter to the Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations, the Hon. Margaret Wilson. Mr Rankin was a man of honour who knew Te Roroa’s history and whakapapa better than anyone!!! (See parts of his letter, as F in my Submission), "Te Roroa people were only squatters living on the edge of the Waipou Forest…. The work of the claim was shoddy, unclean and destructive in the eyes of New Zealand society……… Bad research coupled by greed and inefficiency". Shame on you, all of you for not taking notice of the words of a very respected and honourable Maori elder!! A man who knew and spoke the TRUTH!!!!

It is morally wrong to have a Maori Affairs Select Committee reporting and making recommendations on Maori Claims/Settlement Bills. A Maori Affairs Committee is seen to be “judge and jury” acting for their “own” people and it’s evident in this instance, by the Select Committee deliberately omitting all non-Maori opposing Submissions from their “racially biased” report/recommendation to Parliament. Many of the Committee members had a vested interest in this claim or have shown they are only interested in their “own” people. Not a committee that is acting in the best interest of all New Zealanders!!

Tau, I knew before this report/recommendation came out what the result would be by just looking around the table at our hearing and seeing 8 brown faces and one white face, I knew it would be a complete waste of time – and so it was - a blatant racist report/recommendation at its very worst. Hopefully the people of New Zealand will wake up to these corrupt Kangaroo Courts.

John Key, is this how National will run New Zealand if it gains power, more lies, corruption, greed, racism and inefficiency from your MP's, just more of Labour with a different name???

A copy of this email has also been sent to Cath Anyan, Senior Parliamentary Officer, Select Committee Office, Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. We ask her to forward this email onto the Speaker of the House, the Rt. Hon. Margaret Wilson to take whatever action is necessary to address the Ministers and Politicians who have misled the House during the readings of the Te Roroa Settlement Bill and accordingly, dismiss this “unfounded” claim and “racially biased” Bill. Or are Parliament, the Politicians and the Speaker (who could not produce one document to support this claim when Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations), part of this whole corrupt scene? For the sake of New Zealand and its people, I sincerely hope not, but we will know from the action Parliament takes.

While there are many "genuine" claims against the Crown by many New Zealanders of all races, colours or creeds that must be resolved, this is not one of them. The Government has not been able to produce one document to substantiate this claim – not one!!!

The Waiheke Report in 1987 and the Muriwhenua Report in 1988 stated, "It is out of keeping with the Treaty....that the resolution of one injustice should not be seen to create another”. The Te Roroa Settlement Bill does exactly that!!!!!

THE ONE NEW ZEALAND FOUNDATION INC. CHALLENGE
Before this Bill has its final reading, “The One New Zealand Foundation Inc. challenges the Government, the Maori Affairs Select Committee and the politicians who allowed this Bill to proceed; to produce documented evidence that has not been fabricated, tampered with, or deliberately withheld, to substantiate Te Roroa’s Claim/Settlement Bill".

The One New Zealand Foundation Inc. awaits your reply!!

Yours sincerely,

Ross Baker.

Chairman, One New Zealand Foundation Inc.

cc. Webmaster, ONZF. This letter will appear on the ONZF website.