mrspdm is just back home from morning swimming or more appropriately I think Aqua Walking at the Flaxmere Pool. While there she was on the fringe but included in a conversation between two Maori Ladies who are regular attendees at these sessions.
Maori Lady 1: `I did not expect to see you here this morning.’
Maori Lady 2: `Why not?’
Maori Lady 1: `I thought you would still be at Ngaruawahia at the Hui.’
Maori Lady 2: `Pfffft I woud not go there – they do not know what they are talking about.’
She then turns slightly to make sure mrspdm and others on the fringe of the conversation are included and can hear what she is saying and says:
`It is true most of them there have no idea what they are are talking about!!!’
This confirms my view that most Maori throughout New Zealand had no interest in the Hui which was run by a few activists who hi jacked the Maori King into hosting it.
I reckon if I drove to Porangahau and spoke to Maori there that I grew up with and around Hawkes Bay including those I played rugby cricket and Bowls with and against I would get exactly the same response from almost all of them – 95% plus. I would not need to be selective in any way.
No Minister 
Hi-jacked the maori king?
I doubt the truck driver has either the intelligence or the standing to be hi-jacked.
I do, however, hope he is told to respect my language (English) and is whipped with a stockman’s whip every time the bastard butchers it.
As well as butchering the English language I suspect he put his big foot in Maori aspirations , by claiming there were no treaty principles just the treaty.
Acts whole issue with the TOW has been the constant reference to treaty principles whenever Goverment action or inaction offend Maori wishes and demands. We have Government departments putting references to treaty principles in policy documents and employment contracts. In light of their being no references in the TOW or indeed anywhere, as to what these treaty principles are Act simply want to clarify them.
No need now Maori, through there great King have told us there is no such thing as treaty principles