Letters to the Editor

Majority support a new Katikati library?

I'm writing about the proposed new library and hub in Katikati. Given the huge opposition I get to the whole project being bought forward at this time from the original... Read More

Lighten up, fireworks are a cracker!

I'm going to fire off a few of my favourite pyrotechnics before we're overcome by the wowsers peddling their misery. I love fireworks. Always have and now my kids... Read More

Maori do need race-based policies

Re: The several letters to the editor regarding Maori. I feel disappointed when I read this type of rhetoric nonsense because it remind me of the many narrow minded... Read More

Entertaining stories on offer

The documentaries ‘The Red Heads' and ‘Under the Carpet', that M J Anderson (The Weekend Sun, October 14) claims to provide proof that three or four... Read More

Open letter to new councillors

The Local Government Act States: 'The purpose of Local Government is to enable democratic local decision making and action by communities. It is the law, pure and... Read More

Joke of the week

This week the taxpayers of New Zealand have sent our current Minister of Defence and Minister of Earthquake Recovery, Gerry Brownlee, to a conference overseas. The... Read More

Why bother?

With reference to the recently claimed low response by voters in recent local body elections. The answer is pretty obvious. I'm 77 years old and have almost never... Read More

Mad to pass up $1m treat

I read with horror and disbelief in The Weekend Sun last week that one Maketu-Kaimai ward councillor wants to stop the Te Puke mainstreet project to make it single-laned.... Read More

And the truck crashes continue…

Yet another serious truck crash near Tauranga on October 13. Nearly every time we go out we see an incident with a truck. I know there are many reports about how... Read More

An unfathomable situation

It's unfathomable that an 18-year-old on her first day at work at Dreamworld had the lives and wellbeing of every soul riding the Thunder River Rapids in her hands... Read More

Believing their own spin

Re: The Black Caps: Ongoing problems still persist with inflated egos, and worst of all players even believe their own spin and it all makes one want to find a corner... Read More

Who’s to blame for driver-less prangs?

It is predicted that by 2020 we will have many driver-less cars on our roads. Computers will then be in charge of another major aspect of our personal control of... Read More