Letters to the Editor

Slow drivers: Speed up or catch the bus

Response to Graeme Weggery - from The Mount, and has no idea of the commute chaos between the hours of 7am onwards and 5pm onwards Monday to Friday from Te Puke... Read More

We are so being ripped off: quintuple payments

We are so being ripped off. Robin Bell writes very sincerely in defence of treaty settlements. No-one is complaining about legitimate settlements being paid out.... Read More

Ethnic bias shown in 2013 census

Ethnic bias was clearly shown by Statistics New Zealand in the text provided for the 2013 Census. This aberration has been fully explained by Michael Littlewood... Read More

Anti-Maori letters based on false information

It is hard to believe the number of apparently intelligent people writing anti-Maori letters based on false information and irrational fear. These people fear that... Read More

Ratepayers shouldn't have to fund 'Gate Pa extravagance'

The spin continues un-abated yet the pageant is next year. Two weeks planned from 16-29 April for feasting, blessings, fêting and other capers. This incidentally... Read More

Library toilet issues

Congratulations to Penelope Sullivan for raising the issue of lack of toilets at the Tauranga Library. While it is good that there is provision for mothers with... Read More

Devoy 'missed the point'

In my opinion it seems to me that highly-qualified ex-squash player, our very own Dame Susan Devoy, has missed the point.I really don't think Mr Winston Peters is... Read More

Bridge Marina enclosure

Seventeen years ago, when the Bridge Marina was built it should have had a rock wall, like all good marinas do. Another design error was to not put the entrance... Read More

A realistic look at flooding problem

With really bad reports of flooding in Tauranga recently, we predictably have our elected Councillors leaping into the fray with the ratepayers cheque book, with... Read More

Who else is tired of 'panic-mongering' guff?

Is anyone else tired of reading the poorly-argued, carelessly punctuated words of C. Humphreys in the pages of SunLive, and in the local Western Bay of Plenty Grey... Read More

No sign of trickle down

What happened to the trickle down?It was my understanding that the massive treaty settlements would benefit all Maori not just a few.At present, there is a great... Read More

Education and lunches

Reading Roger's Rabbits column, how I agree with him about the breakfast for children at school. We need to educate parents that it does not cost much time and money... Read More