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 Warming proven? I don't think so.
Easy fines to save livesHow bizarre for the police to place speed cameras on passing-lane straights, and then claim that it is not revenue-collecting?Prompted now by the proud announcement of the several hundred speedsters who have been nabbed speeding past schools, I ask the question “should pedestrians be fined so as to help save their lives?Eg: there have been literally... The real history of New ZealandWhy is it our elected politicians are not encouraged to read the ‘real’ historical stories of New Zealand. There are abundant records in our many archives, museums, websites and books written by researchers that tell us our land was inhabited 2000 years ago by a sophisticated people who arrived in junks, long before Maori arrived. ... More precaution neededTony Ryall has said 60 people coming off a plane from Japan with flu-like symptoms on board is nothing to be concerned about. What!He goes on to say that it is just “seasonal flu”. So now he is a doctor who can diagnose from afar and dismiss it. Just as well the airport staff had more common sense. (The grass roots... Warming provenBarry Walker (Letters, 10 Feb) seems convinced recent news reports of cold temperatures destroys Mr Gore’s “ Myth of Global Warming”. In fact he will need to find far more evidence than one or two events to disprove a well established long-term trend. Unfortunately for us all, anthropogenic global warming has been proved to the satisfaction... Speed tolerance nilI voted and read with interest the results of your speed tolerance survey. I wonder how many of your readers realise that the current 4km/h speed tolerance is actually a 0km/h speed tolerance when you take the accuracy of Police radar at 100km/h into account? If a private company was advertising as the Police do they could be prosecuted under the fair... Maori Party keep ‘wanting more’I think the Maori Party ought to be renamed The Oliver Twist Party as the former are always asking for MORE!Their latest mind-boggling assertion that they “own” the water is so ludicrous as to make them the laughing-stock of the world! No one “owns” water as it is a natural resource constantly replenished by rainfall. Do... They should have burned wreck of RenaExcellent letter by Captain ‘Health Smart regarding MNZ’. I don’t know whether it’s true but I heard that they have just appointed an estate agent to the top job in MNZ. Perhaps he’s a Master Mariner who has gone ashore!Further to my suggestion that they should have burnt Rena. Of course the Salvors Switzer wouldn’t... CEO salaries comparisonsThere is a lot of controversy re the CEO of Christchurch city CEO receiving a $75,000 increase in salary.In NZ councillors and the like are grossly overpaid for what they do.In England elected officials carry out as many duties in many cases as a paid employee. My sister is a councillor in England and she works for the council every day, at times working... Little protest?As a newcomer to your beautiful country I watched the election procedure with much interest. As a totally unexperienced and unbiased onlooker, I was amazed that John Key, who has clearly giving a message that he intended to dictate his terms if he was returned to power, actually won.Thinking, that clearly there was little opposition, apart from Winston... |
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