Letters to the Editor

Commending the catering

Re: ‘Great stay, bad meals' (The Weekend Sun, April 24). I wish to reply to E Izett as their experience at Tauranga Hospital was different to mine.I too have... Read More

Unneeded ponytail journalism?

What a brilliantly sensitive, civil-minded restaurant industry we have developed when one of its members considers it important that the nation should know that... Read More

Get the facts straight

After the recent letters ‘Don't blame the Jews' by D Himpers and ‘If rockets continue, there's no alternative' by B Martin I decided to see if anyone... Read More

Sunday carparking chaos

We decided to go to a movie at Rialto on Sunday. If the Tauranga City Council want people to go to the city, please open a carpark building on a Sunday and have... Read More

Village living costs

One has only to follow the share market to realise what a lucrative business retirement villages are.With retirement villages being built quicker than quicksilver... Read More

Better to act before the fact

We punish criminal or violent acts after the event, presumably to stop the offender doing the same thing again and to deter others from committing the same offence.... Read More

Great stay, bad meals

I recently had six days in Tauranga Hospital's ground floor ward, and I had such wonderful treatment. The nurses were most kind and helpful. And everything else... Read More

Are the tolls worth the bother

So Route K tolls have been fiddled with again and to what end? The new Route K toll gantry will become operational by August 2015, when the New Zealand Transport... Read More

Water rights ownership not on

Prime Minister John Key is moving towards granting preferential water rights to Government-created tribal corporations - this is after saying on countless occasions... Read More

Help tourist drivers with road

During summer we saw some horrendous accidents and deaths involving overseas tourists who don't know our road rules. Surely now is the time to remedy that. How you... Read More

Pooches have enough city parks

Re: ‘Pooch park wanted' (The Weekend Sun, April 10, pg 13). After reading Mel Osborn's reasoning for wanting a dog park in Tauranga, we as a NZ Kennel Club-registered... Read More

A call to support Israel

David Fredrickson wrote an article in the 'Church active in our community' calling for support for Israel in which he asks "What on earth has Israel and the Jewish... Read More