Letters to the Editor

Whole new spin to Kai Ora initiative

Dear Roger, in response to your 'Free Lunch” comments in this week's Rabbits...I am the school nurse in a local Decile 5 college. I have, with full support... Read More

Ridiculous construction price for library

TCC are to be commended for deferring the new Greerton Library proposal and at least address the massive $42million stormwater /drainage issues that have clearly... Read More

Constitution and conflict

The consensus of opinion from those who attended ‘The Independent Outlook on the NZ Constitutional Review' meeting at Bureta Park on Monday evening,with a... Read More

Realising review danger

Well done Tauranga again I think you are all beginning to realise how dangerous this ‘Constitutional Review' would be if the results and changes that are mooted... Read More

Focus education not the treaty

Too much importance has been attached to the financial side of the Treaty process. Much bigger gains are to be had from reducing the Maori Unemployment rate and... Read More

Down the road to apartheid

On Monday night I attended a meeting to listen to David Round of the Independent Constitutional Review panel.This was a follow-up to the recent meeting held by Michael... Read More

Govt giving away our birthright

This is for those of you who have not seen this notice in the press. It tells how a 14% Maori population, who are only half Maori, with the connivance of a self-serving,... Read More

Legally recognised Maori sovereignty

It is always disappointing when so called academics get things so wrong. Mr Bruce Moon is a case in point.In his latest letter he asserts that he and his followers... Read More

There are no smelly yellow lemons here!

In reply to Ken Evans on smelly yellow lemons. It is about time you got off the subject of the yellow buses. A person your age has Gold Card so where do you get... Read More

Civil wars made treaty redundant

A treaty was signed I good faith, and some years later was broken by both sides and war was fought. The wars call them what you may, was in fact a civil war, a war... Read More

Forget all the wrongs of ancestors

Some of my ancestors used to travel in long open boats to the coasts of neighbours, and burn down their villages, kill all the men, and take away women and any goods... Read More

The rising incidence of child poverty

Cry me a river. Nothing liberates tears of frustration like the rising incidence of child poverty and its siamese twin; child abuse. Despite decades of kicking the... Read More