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Sam Neil’s television series on Cook’s voyages would have been improved by omitting the racial overtones and ethnic selectivity. BRYAN JOHNSON

O¯ mokoroa New Zealanders.

You’d seek to include tikanga Maori, but acknowledge that not so many other New Zealanders would.

There are those who would demand that Christian values or principles be predominant. I would certainly be one of those. But I have to acknowledge that, although Christian principles built the wonderful society we used to live in here, not to mention Western civilisation, most of this country’s residents have jettisoned those principles now.

We have, for example, jettisoned the sanctity of innocent life, and thousands of in-utero children are slaughtered every year in our public hospitals, with government funding. And this Labour/ Green government intends to increase that number substantially. Presumably Winsome would want immigrants and refugees to sign up to that.

Anyway, we all understand where Winsome is coming from, and what he’s trying, if perhaps clumsily, to achieve.

He and we have witnessed the absolute chaos that has befallen so many other Western countries where Muslim ‘refugees’ have flooded in. They display a Muslim supremacy, and have no interest in adapting themselves to the values, culture, even the laws, of their host countries. Muslims forbid the consumption of alcohol, and that’s why initial proposals include the recognition that alcohol consumption is lawful here.

Winsome is trying to prevent the inflow of Muslims, or at least ensure that incoming Muslims commit to “our values”.

We can all agree with that. Is there a better way of doing it? LEO LEITCH Benneydale