Letters to the Editor

Silly people keep voting them in

There is no problem at all with the current members of the TCC council. The problem is the silly people who live in Tauranga that keep voting them into power. The... Read More

Tauranga not a welcoming city

I echo the sentiments of M Walmsley (letters 5/7/13) that Tauranga is not a visually welcoming city. I especially agree about the appalling vegetation at the Elizabeth... Read More

Current job crisis

Not serious about Unemployment:In the age of high unemployment in New Zealand you would rightly start to wonder what the Government has planned to alleviate the... Read More

NZers' concerns on race based politics

Re Kate MacIntyre's letter (5/7/13), C. Humphreys may be only slightly high in her claim that 85% of New Zealanders are concerned with race-based policies. Here... Read More

Spying and security

The newspapers, presenters on television and the radio, and the talk-back hosts are all attacking government measures to control money launderers and crime syndicates.... Read More

Traffic signage: Remove the lot!

Why stop at some sign's why not remove 'all” traffic signage? Nobody takes a blind bit of notice of them anyway (blind being the operative word) - especially... Read More

Anti-violence campaign

PC rules again: Here we have Sir Owen Glenn pushed aside because of an omission to note something on an application that probably in reality didn't exist and yet... Read More

City's white elephant

The Tauranga City Council has saddled us, the ratepayers, with a white elephant in the form of Route K. Obviously, this project was approved by the council without... Read More

To whoever crashed into us

To the person who damaged our green Mazda Demio two weeks ago. The vehicle was legally parallel-parked in Clarke Street while we visited the Tauranga Public Hospital... Read More

Cultural heritage

When I taught at a country school in Hawkes Bay many years ago, I spent a full term on the study of Maori in some depth, language, weaving, legends, history, waiata... Read More

All in the same boat

I am tired of this collective guilt foisted on us by Chris Findlayson and the Maori party. I do not feel responsible for events which happened 100-150 years ago,... Read More

Language week

I am all in favour of Maori Language Week to try to preserve this historic language. However, how about an English language week.Why? Because many of our children... Read More