Letters to the Editor

Privilege to play grand instrument

Tauranga is fortunate to have a magnificent Steinway concert grand piano housed at Baycourt, and what a privilege it was for local folk to be able to play this grand... Read More

Thanks for thoughtfulness

We must commend the Rotary Club of Tauranga for the outstanding thoughtfulness of the way they set up their book fair over Easter Weekend. Apart from putting the... Read More

Spend tax on roads

So Taxinda has put the ‘tax and spend' government into first gear with the proposed petrol tax. Will they lower the speed limit? I doubt it as that will mean... Read More

What do town planners do?

Why has Trustpower moved into downtown Tauranga with 500 workers and their cars? Why couldn't they build at Gate Pa or any other suburb? Also, why is the city council... Read More

The (R)age of the male

If I had my way I'd cull a billion men from the planet. Starting with the paedophiles and rapists, then the murderers and drug dealers, working my way through the... Read More

Poo patrol common

I'd like to assure T Hounsome (The Weekend Sun, March 16) that it is definitely not just him in his suffering with cats! Over the last few months I've been monitoring... Read More

Consumers couldn’t be bothered

To me the worst thing about the issue regarding the future of TECT was that only some 40 per cent of the 50,000 consumers who receive capital distributions from... Read More

Museums ‘dinosaurs of entertainment’

There is absolutely no need for any new museums anywhere in the world today. Wake up TCC and smell the coffee. Museums are now the dinosaurs of entertainment. One... Read More

Value of skilled trades

What value a nurse in a hospital? A skilled tradesman, who does a job that no highly paid professional can do - build a house, work on his car etc.? It's about time... Read More

Partnership from Court of Appeal

Ryan Wood (The Weekend Sun, March 2) is correct there is no reference to ‘partnership' in the Treaty of Waitangi 1840. The notion of ‘partnership' is... Read More

In the words of Sir Apirana Ngata

Those Maori who are presently vilifying Sir Bob Jones and calling for his upoko have scant but selective knowledge of their own history. His statements only reiterate... Read More

Duty of cyclists to ring bell

Thanks to Jim Bunny for the article regarding the terrible behaviour of some cyclists (page 15, The Weekend Sun, March 9). I have almost given up cycling or walking... Read More