Letters to the Editor

Mount culture cringe

Calls for TCC to support a ‘Cultural Centre' in Coronation Park, Mount Maunganui, behind the old I-Centre are at best opportunistic. This is private commercial... Read More

Asbestos roof concern at Tauranga Hospital

Should we be wearing face masks as we walk past Tauranga Hospital on windy days? The rebuild of the Hospital in recent years is something to be proud of except... Read More

Things to divert voters’ attention

Another year looking at the TCC Draft Annual Plan and submissions they certainly have highs and lows, the high being that everyone can have everything they want... Read More

Side-stepping mayor

Mayor Crosby, in his self-effacing way by deflection of just criticism from R Bishop and others over 'his” Council's cosy blossoming co-governance relationship... Read More

What more do they want?

What more does the Labour Party want?More holidays on pay - don't want a chance to miss a day off. Poor businesses, they obviously don't count with lack of production... Read More

Stopping racial intolerance

To A Authier the ‘Twisting of the Treaty' is quite refreshing you know when you read it that it is true. Plus when you say stop racial intolerance.That's why... Read More

Violence and genocide ‘chilling’

Aaron Authier's letter 'Treaty Book ‘inaccurate'” Weekend Sun 10 May is an amazing statement.It is to be hoped this person is only a sympathizer and... Read More

Nothing in Treaty confers special rights

As a co-author of 'Twisting the Treaty”, I reply to Aaron Authier's letter to you. If he has read the book, his misunderstanding is grotesque. It is he... Read More

Xenophobic past

As Doomsday approaches yet again Messrs Peterson, Johnson and Humphries are increasing their frenzied attempts to guide their fellow Kiwis into supporting continuing... Read More

Dishonest climate argument

Don Barnes, in his letter [Sun May 10] critising Rogers Rabbit's article on climate change, is a classic example of arguing from a position of professed superiority.... Read More

Lacking procreative potential

The term ‘marriage', which always had a clear meaning, has now a double meaning. Since April 17 we have two kinds of marriage.Same sex marriages enjoy the... Read More

Licence to abort

Family Planning has a licence for its Tauranga branch to conduct abortions using the French drug mifepristone (also called RU486). This drug, together with a prostaglandin... Read More