Letters to the Editor

Big changes

Thank you John Fairburn for clarifying that your predicted three metre sea level rise 'came from articles [you] read 20 to 30 years ago” (The Weekend Sun,... Read More

Mutual Trust

John Robson has issues of trust. He does not trust the wisdom of Council's proposal to gift 11 Mission street to local iwi, and he does not trust iwi to share the... Read More

Ice core temperatures

Last week Ken Jones wrote a letter about English wine. In actual fact, there were two periods when wine was produced successfully by England and Scotland. The period... Read More

On a bandwagon

Once again Robin Bell is ‘on the bandwagon' regarding race relations (The Weekend Sun, August 23). He lambastes both Don Brash and Margaret Murray-Benge when... Read More

Climate change

I saw the printed letters about climate change being cyclic. It brought memories of what my history teacher (in 1962) said about Roman Britain. He was reading about... Read More

Omokoroa College

The problems facing school/college overcrowding and the continuing future problems all around the Bay all comes back, in my opinion, to a total lack of planning... Read More

Remove the tax

The Government is dealing a killing blow to many retirees who will be unable to pay their rates after the interest on their life savings is reduced to 2.5 per cent... Read More

Abortion

It was a sad indictment on our so-called ‘enlightened' society of Aotearoa to hear that our MPs passed the first stage of the bill aiming to change abortion... Read More

Poor recycling

I agree with Yvonne Field regarding the Tauranga City Council's poor recycling record. Tauranga is in the bottom three in New Zealand as far as recycling goes... Read More

Sea level rise

To answer Peter Otway (The Weekend Sun, August 16) as to where I got the three metres sea level rise from, it came from articles I read 20 to 30 years ago and actually... Read More

Unacceptable views

The current controversy around Western Bay mayoral candidate Ms Margaret Murray- Benge highlights a disturbing association she has with Dr Don Brash and the organisation... Read More

Poorly portrayed

Regarding Margaret Murray-Benge's reply to a [Stuff.co.nz article August 9] article of what she said. It was poorly written and I ask why do white people have to... Read More