By Lewis Jackson (Reuters) -Hundreds of people on Monday set out on a nine-day march to New Zealand's capital of Wellington in protest over legislation that would reinterpret a treaty at the heart of race relations in the Pacific country.

The country is often considered a leader in indigenous rights, but opponents of the bill ... say this has resulted in the country being divided by race, and the bill will allow the treaty to be interpreted more fairly through parliament, rather than ...