Letters to the Editor

Ignorant or arrogant?

In last week's edition of The Weekend Sun (May 19) there were two letters to the editor that bore a post script that the Tauranga City Council and the NZTA had been... Read More

Value of land owed to hard work

One Peter Dey appears frequently in your columns with grossly false statements about our colonial past. His latest outrageous claim (The Weekend Sun, page 47, May... Read More

Collusion or corruption

I have just heard Kim Hill interviewing Professor Idelbar Avelar of Spokane University on corruption in Brazil - gross corruption so endemic that it seems almost... Read More

Nothing that traffic lights couldn’t fix

Re: The construction of the Te Puna roundabout.I have read recent comments by the New Zealand Transport Agency's Highways Manager Niclas Johansson lauding the praises... Read More

What about the 90,000 unemployed youth?

Nothing is going to happen to improve the lot of the 90,000 unemployed youth in NZ while parliamentarians continue with an attitude that will automatically prevent... Read More

Police doing ‘a damned fine job’

Open letter to Inspector Clifford Paxton, Area Commander Western Bay of Plenty Police.Despite our dairies being under siege from tobacco bandits, despite people... Read More

Disabled not factored into tsunami plan

Re: The disabled not catered for in council's tsunami plans.After the delivery fiasco last year - or non-delivery I should say - I read through the council's new... Read More

Diamonds are never forever

You buy a diamond ring for the big occasion and if it is not accepted by your intended and return it to the shop you will find it's worth less than half for resale.... Read More

Christmas tree still up in May

Am I the only Te Puke resident a little bit embarrassed that we still have a Christmas tree - albeit a metal one - blazing its Christmas lights every night - in... Read More

An unselfish act congratulated

Re: ‘Jono's random act of kindness' (The Weekend, Sun, page 3, May 5, 2017). What a great article on car dealer Jono Allen, who made good teenager Marise Menzies... Read More

Phoenix carpark

Re: ‘Spending for the sake of it' (The Weekend Sun, May 5).Councillor Steve Morris' response to my letter is intriguing if not endeavouring to still defend... Read More

Education’s failure

Those who have a cynical regard for Manu Paul's promise that Maori will look after the foreshore, beaches and their fauna and flora should consider the over-representation... Read More