Letters to the Editor

No confidence inspired...

Re: Rob Paterson's letter ‘Stadium lunacy - Part 2' (The Weekend Sun, February 10). TCC said: 'the community stadium proposal is being led by Priority One”... Read More

Not a good idea...

Re: ‘Wrong officers' (The Weekend Sun, February 24). Jim Sherlock's letter suggesting people be employed to round up children absent from school - not a good... Read More

Government gets money too easily

A major problem we have in New Zealand is that the Government now collects taxes too easily. When I think back to the 1970s there was no GST, there was sales tax... Read More

Total arrogance and disrespect

I am 92 years old and cannot comprehend, and am appalled at the total arrogance and lack of respect shown by Hunter Wells in his page 2 Jim Bunny column in a recent... Read More

The family of man in one big bag...

How can any section of the human race be classified as being coloured? When every human on earth has a skin colouring of some sort. The way I see it, you can compare... Read More

Stadium lunacy – Part 2

Re: ‘Tauranga Stadium lunacy' (letter by Rob Paterson, Ohuaiti. The Weekend Sun, December 16, with right of reply from Tauranga City Council Commission chair... Read More

So who decides ‘what’s right’?

Re: Jim Bunny's Page 2 column ‘Striking a blow for what's right' (The Weekend Sun, January 27). My question is who decides ‘what's right?'. Funny... Read More

Why stop at streets?

Jim Bunny's proposal to change the names of some of Tauranga's streets set me thinking. Why stop at streets? The most obviously inappropriate name is Tauranga itself.... Read More

So how are they really doing folks?

It's two years since our elected Councillors and Mayor was sacked. A lot of resentment and money could have been saved by keeping the councillors, who weren't a... Read More

Why not angle parking?

Carparking is an ongoing problem in Tauranga, more so if you don't live on a bus route. With losing carparks on Cameron Rd and a deadline not to park on the grass... Read More

Come on Tauranga - send them a clear message...

Who else is looking at what appears to be a debacle occurring on Cameron Rd with the current upgrade being undertaken? There appears to be little consideration... Read More

Toll roads and the truth...

Dear Editor, on January 19, 2023, Sunlive ran a story about Mr Ian Young's petition to Parliament about Tauranga's toll roads. A Waka Kotahi spokesperson said there... Read More