Letters to the Editor

Deficit and depreciation

Being a resident of one of the Tauranga City Council elder housing flats I received a letter from Anne Blakeway asking me to attend a meeting to discuss the selling,... Read More

Tauranga traffic turmoil

Just when the hopeful thought the current woes couldn't get any worse, suddenly the Maungatapu Highway (SH29) rears its ugly head at both ends between Hairini and... Read More

Indicators that don’t indicate

Drivers who exit roundabouts and leave their ‘turning right' indicators on most probably had to re-sit their School Certificate, or equivalent examinations. C... Read More

Drawing the line at pale and male

If G Hodgson (The Weekend Sun, April 20) wishes to criticise the local council for being unoriginal, stagnant and out of touch, or ‘stale', to use their word,... Read More

To tip or not to tip

Paula Bennett is advocating that we should tip the young person who comes to our table, in a restaurant, and asks, 'How's yer meal?” before I've hardly picked... Read More

A tenant bites back

My hearts bleeds for Tony Cranston and his 13 rental properties (page 3, The Weekend Sun, April 20). What an intolerable burden, living under a government which... Read More

Lest we forget them all

Each year Anzac Day rightly reminds us of the sacrifice soldiers made, and of the senseless waste of life and futility of war. Yet one must ask why there is no commemoration... Read More

Should St John survive on charity?

Colleen Clark has given 50 years' service as a St John volunteer, and Jack Chivers gave 70 years' service and a couple of hundred thousand dollars to St John to... Read More

Maori wards undermining democracy

The NZ Centre for Political Research reveals Stuart Crosby, Doug Leeder and 13 other local body politicians voted to undermine our democracy! This group, The National... Read More

The power of gratitude

Seems petty, but it left an acid sensation in the back of the palate. I was walking past the entranceway to the police station garage on Willow Street when a flat... Read More

Buying a pig in a poke

Whoever put together the blurb ‘What kind of museum is proposed?' in the Museum Referendum Supporting Information is obviously an accomplished copy writer... Read More

Why vote?

Why should we bother to vote? I raise this question as we are being encouraged to vote for a new Tauranga City councillor. I believe all councillors are muzzled... Read More