Letters to the Editor

One country, one people

M Lally (The Weekend Sun, December 15) refers to ‘one country, one people' in relation to Maori electoral wards. We were two peoples, Maori and Pakeha, at... Read More

Will you resign?

To the Mayor of the Western Bay and those of the council who voted with him to follow a racist agenda and appoint Maori wards. When the poll in 2018 for rebuttal... Read More

One standard for all

P Dey in criticising Cr. Lally's Maori ward stance (The Weekend Sun, December 8) fails to understand that councillors are elected to represent all of their community,... Read More

Petition re Maori wards

The recent decision supported by most Western Bay councillors (except Crs Mike Lally, Kevin Marsh and Margaret Murray-Benge) to vote for race-based Maori wards has... Read More

Let’s oppose shallow thinkers

The politically correct and obviously confused majority of Western Bay district councillors and mayor, who advocate racially dividing seats on council, need to join... Read More

Brickbat for new road layout

Well done those engineers who designed the new layout of SH29, constructed at glacial speed across Matapihi Peninsula. Recent extension of the median barrier from... Read More

Criticism ‘false and mischievous’

I cannot let P Dey's comments (The Weekend Sun, December 8) go unanswered. His bankrupted idea is that good business or politics is to funnel as much of the public... Read More

Call to action

So the museum is to go ahead. Now come on Tauranga lets change things. What we need is a group of people to get together and form a group (party) and start planning... Read More

Remember the names

A rate increase of 13.6 per cent over three years will cause problems for thousands of Tauranga people. The increases will be added into rents and superannuation... Read More

Drought is a fact of life

Re the interesting article about health and climate change (page 33, The Weekend Sun, December 1). Professor Richard Bedford claims dire problems from having a warmer... Read More

Warmer is better

Re ‘Climate change threatens New Zealanders' health' (page 33, The Weekend Sun, December 1). The use of ‘climate change' to predict catastrophe for humanity... Read More

A confession

After reading Jim Bunny's comment ‘Why pay when you can pick?' regarding a matron helping herself to hydrangeas by The Strand, (The Weekend Sun, December 8)... Read More