Letters to the Editor

Dish up Govt some of its own recipe

With the Government's proposal to outsource hospital meals, putting hundreds more employees out of work, it seems to me shortsightedness in election year. However,... Read More

Time for the debate

Even though the Mayor of Tauranga has admitted that the Council is assembling, under urgency, a massive document of information spanning the entire Bay of Plenty,... Read More

Additional burden falls on ratepayers

According to Cr Faulkner TCC has been informed by the Office of Treaty Settlements that compulsory co-governance boards on all district/ regional councils are... Read More

Oily political fingerprints in hush-up

We are expected to believe that the recent oil spill by the Liloa in the harbour was news to the Regional Council chairman when contacted by the media - yeah right!... Read More

Historic classroom

I am almost as ‘historic' as this wonderful cute little building for which I have so many memories. Otumoetai Primary School, was a two roomed building.... Read More

Under the boardwalk

The ‘amended' plan has stealthfully deviated from promoted pathway and fair enough Crs. Catherine Stewart and Murray Guy are justifiably miffed. The Pilot... Read More

Good sorts expanding model railway complex

There are some real good sorts in our city and I was privileged to meet with some of them recently. I took my grandson to Memorial Park for the first time and... Read More

Drugs hinder jobs

Regarding comments by Martin Wilson: For many years I felt the same way as M Wilson's comments about immigrants and our high unemployment rate. Now I have seen... Read More

Ironic councillor comment

Councillor Bill Faulkner (Sun, 5 July) sounds very reasonable when he criticises the Regional Council's Coastal Environment Plan and says 'They draw lines over... Read More

Accident compensation inequality

In about 1974 NZ was hailed as a world leader in bringing in an accident compensation scheme that gave immediate income related benefits, together with the costs... Read More

Why does the public tolerate high rates?

I read in the media about young people up to their necks in dept buying a house, how much of that is due to land agents who get, not earn $200,000 to $500,000... Read More

Maori chiefs sold off NZ land

One simple question for those inane innocents who allege that it was 'forced and often fraudulent land seizures” that enabled the ‘wicked colonisers'... Read More