Letters to the Editor

Welcome to Towrangha

Maori Language Week is coming up and so I thought that this article below in the Ohinemuri Regional History Journal back in 1965 might further add to the awareness... Read More

Sea level data

I was interested to read Rob Colmore's letter "Sea levels" pg 49, Friday August 30, 2019, considering that rising sea levels were the single data point that... Read More

Equal citizenship

I was astonished to read the letter, sent by your correspondent Robin Bell of Omanawa in the 23 August edition of the Sun. Apart from his appalling ignorance of... Read More

The fleecing facts

Mr Brian P Porter and to all those that share your opinion. ”think” before you speak. Your figures may be correct but the rest of your letter is based... Read More

Rugby World Cup

This is surely something that most kiwis have been looking forward to for a long time. When I came back to NZ in 2011, I subscribed to Sky TV's sport package because,... Read More

Getting answers

The Official Information Act can be ‘bottom shelved' in so many different ways. For instance, try emailing the Tauranga City Council and ask which councillors... Read More

Taking responsibility

I don't know if John Rudd is another of our old pale, stale males, but his rhetoric certainly is. Once again, a man dictating and laying the blame and responsibility... Read More

Who is fleecing who?

To quote our Prime Minster 'Our instinct was certainly that New Zealanders were being fleeced at the pump and the Commerce Commission has confirmed that is true,"... Read More

Mission St

John Robson's opinion piece (Private advertisement in The Weekend Sun, August 23) is a timely rebuttal of some of the misleading misinformation floating around in... Read More

Pollution

Once again I sat and listened to the one sided view presented by the media on the damage farming is doing to the environment. In my opinion it is an unbalanced... Read More

Sea levels

John Fairburn (The Weekend Sun August 23) is correct regarding no observational sea level rise in 60 years and has the hydro graphic surveyors of Australia confirming... Read More

Margaret responds

What a dreadful letter from R Bell. How on earth can it be racist to want all men and women to have equal political rights, irrespective of when they or their ancestors... Read More