After spending nearly 20 years in the USA my wife and I arrived back in New Zealand to be surprised at how much influence Maori have on New Zealand life and culture.... Read More

Like others, I am a consumer with concerns about Trustpower's behaviour, not least after installing solar panels and finding the excess power we generated was paid... Read More

Those saying that TECT should stay ‘as is' are living in a time warp. Times are changing and TECT's current charitable allocation is insufficient to meet Tauranga's... Read More

The TECT trustees' proposal is wrong in law and misguided in practice. As trustees their principal duties are the preservation of the capital of the trust and conduct... Read More

Waipuna Hospice has been a grateful recipient of funds from TECT over many years. We provide essential services to the community and rely heavily on community support.... Read More

I read that Social Link, representing about 260 social sector organisations is supportive of the TECT proposal to transfer assets to a charitable trust. The TECT... Read More

In response to K Evans' letter ‘The Future Looks Bad' (The Weekend Sun, March 2) I would point out that although TECT has said they are acting based on uncertainty... Read More

Pastor Greg Burgess (page 28, The Weekend Sun, March 2) smugly parades his ignorance of evolutionary processes and the scientific method as he spouts uninformed... Read More

I regularly visit Memorial Park once a week with my dog; we both usually have a paddle. However, it has become very noticeable over the last year that the construction... Read More

Heaven forbid, what on earth do we pay our huge rates for when now our glass is not going to be recycled? Just when a huge percentage of our town are really being... Read More

With Rogers Rabbits away we were left with Ryan Wood's rambling about revival (The Weekend Sun, March 2).The topic was noble enough, just not the negative colonist... Read More

I hope P Dey of Welcome Bay (The Weekend Sun, March 2) reads Ryan's Ruminations (page 2, The Weekend Sun, March 2). He manages to get published almost every week... Read More