4 October 2008.

The Honourable Anand Satyanand,
Governor General of New Zealand,
Government House,
Private Bag 39995,
Wellington Mail Centre,
Lower Hutt 5045,
New Zealand.

Dear Sir,

RE: Te Roroa Settlement Bill's "Royal Assent"

The Te Roroa Settlement Bill has been passed by Parliament and is in the process of being given its "Royal Assent". Sir, this Bill is corrupt!!

For this Bill to proceed through Parliament, the Maori Affairs Select Committee was a racially biased committee and misled/lied to Parliament to allow this Bill to proceed.

The Maori Affairs Select Committee consisted of people related to the claimants or with a vested interest in this claim. The Committee was also made up of 8 Maori and only 1non-Maori. We are sure you would not have agreed to this very racially biased committee as you adjourned a case against Mr Titford in 1993 because there were not enough Maori on the jury list. See Dargaville Times, 10 August 1993, "Judge A Satyanand postponed the Court trial until the 27th September 1993 as he said there was a lack of Maori people on the jury list".

The Maori Affairs Committee lied to Parliament that the One New Zealand Foundations Inc Submission was not heard because of bad language. I personally presented this submission at Parliament on the 2 May 2007 and it contained no bad language. The reason the Maori Affairs Select Committee lied to Parliament that our submission was not heard; it contained information obtained through the Official Information Act that this Committee did not want Parliament or the public to know. If this information had been revealed, this Bill would have been rejected by Parliament. No mention was made in their report to Parliament of the 8 other submissions opposing this Bill for various reasons.

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'. This was a lie!!!

Part of the land being returned to Te Roroa under this settlement, was acquired by Her Majesty the Queen under very dubious circumstances. The Ombudsman's investigation found; Crown officials had deliberately removed pages of the Sale Agreement between Mr Titford and Her Majesty the Queen after Mr Titford had signed them and had then witnessed. The Solicitor General agreeing, "That there was a clerical error or errors in the handling of the documents at the time". The documents to acquire this land from Mr Titford were corrupt!!!!

In the case of the Attorney General's responsibility, a Select Committee made up of Te Roroa-linked individuals carrying heavily biased opinions against the interests of the Titfords and Harrisons, should have led to intervention of the Attorney General.

Dr Cullen failed his duty as the Attorney General, "To bring the House of Representatives any provisions in the Bill that appears to be inconsistent with any of the rights and freedoms contained in this Bill of Rights". Being Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations as well as Attorney General, there is no denying he would have known there were "inconsistencies in this Bill".

It is a concern to the One New Zealand Foundation Inc, that as well as being Attorney General, Dr Cullen is also Minister in Charge of Treaty Negotiations. Judge and jury - a conflict of interests. There is no denying that Dr Cullen and the Prime Minister have been in favour of this Bill being passed for many months, therefore there is no doubt, this was the reason Dr Cullen failed to bring to the House of Representatives, the "inconsistencies in this Bill".

While we brought this to the Prime Minister's, the Attorney General's, the Speaker of the House and the Minister of Maori Affairs attention long before the Bill was passed, they all failed to act for very obvious reason.

Before your Honour gives the Te Roroa Settlement Bill its "Royal Assent", there must be an inquiry into this Bill, the Maori Affairs Select Committee and the failure of the Attorney General to uphold his duties to the people of New Zealand under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act, the Treaty of Waitangi and Article 7 and 8 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Sir, this Bill is corrupt!!

Yours sincerely,

Ross Baker.

Researcher, One New Zealand Foundation Inc.

cc. Her Majesty the Queen
Prime Minister, Rt Hon Helen Clark.

This letter will appear on the One New Zealand Foundations website, www.onenzfoundation.co.nz