Letters to the Editor

Wasted money

How much money should we allow the BOP Regional Council to lose on running empty busses before they are stopped? I believe the amount of losses is now more than... Read More

Why subsidise CBD?

Our city councillors are regularly requested to provide ratepayer funds to subsidise CBD promotional activities. The CBD business owners argue they require assistance... Read More

Answers given

'Getting answers” [Letter in The Weekend Sun, September 6] generated this ‘LOGIMA' update. We have considered your request in accordance with the Local... Read More

Time to be fair

D J Bennett [The Weekend Sun letters, September 6], and Margaret Murray-Benge [letters, August 30] are claiming that their support for equal voting rights cannot... Read More

Roads need funds

Every central government politician who comes to this sub region says SH2 and other roading projects are in desperate need of being built properly. They hear from... Read More

On the level

There is one simple scientific fact that the idiots among us, the intelligentsia and the mendacious have to grasp and that fact is the sea level cannot rise in one... Read More

Waitangi Tribunal trivia

So the Waitangi Tribunal reports that a ban on prisoner voting disproportionally hurts Maori and breaches the Treaty. Their report implies that Maori prisoners... Read More

Issues of trust

Debbi Thyne [The Weekend Sun, August 30] writing on 11 Mission St, asserts the issue is about trust. She is absolutely right. Eleven Mission St was bought by Tauranga... Read More

‘Paws’ for thought

Hello, my name is Rossi. I am an old English sheepdog and have a really good ‘owner' who always picks up my pooh. I consider my walks really important to... Read More

Unimaginable consequences

Regarding The Weekend Sun letters from John Fairburn and Ken Jones (August 23) and Tony Wahren and Rob Colmore (August 30), don't forget it is scientists who discovered... Read More

Firearm safety

Last week, as a good, obedient, potential mass murderer, I partook in the gun buyback scheme at Mt Maunganui, rather grumpily, so that may have coloured my experience... Read More

Mauao Base Track

Reinstatement of the track is only as complicated as they want to make it. Headlined by the old bogey of the bureaucratic red tape. In response to Cr Grainger's... Read More