Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor

Our country will always be divided as long as the wrong treaty is in place, and the truth bought out that Maori are not the indigenous people of New Zealand [first... Read More

Financial feasting

Mr ‘Kapai' Wilson with his quick-fire response should realise haste does have its drawbacks and I don't think that he accurately understood what I was saying.... Read More

Letter to the Editor

W.Lawrence (November 30) is spreading seriously untrue information. He claims that the English version of the Treaty of Waitangi in the National Archives has a... Read More

Grieving - A growth industry

Mr Dey certainly doesn't like valid criticism. From the outset the British generally treated maori in a paternalistic way, doing no one any favours as it turns... Read More

Letter to the Editor

I was saddened to read Colin Bidois' letter. He writes of putting things in the past and moving forward in positive manner, yet he spends most of his letter fulminating... Read More

Support for passenger rail service

Graham Sinclair is quite correct when he says that the Councils and Kiwirail need to team up and trail a passenger service between Auckland and Mt Maunganui and... Read More

Race relations and Treaty

A.Taylor replies to Robin Bell, re treatment of American Indians, saying there is little similarity compared the treatment of Maori.'Maori were given equal status... Read More

Is Tauranga heading for another Kaipara?

In Kaipara rates bills this year are a hot topic in every sense, recently reports show the scale of the problems unfolding at Kaipara, spiraling debt and large rate... Read More

The past: Useful or useless?

Some of my ancestors were border raiders who burned down homes, killed all the men, and drove off with the women and cattle. Others were sea pirates who raided and... Read More

Not happy paying extra Maori costs

I am not happy as a ratepayer to pay $60,000 yearly, in addition to my taxpayer contributions for everything Maori - and this in addition to the Constitution Amendments... Read More

A question of privileges

In The Weekend Sun November 9 Peter Dey wrote:'Most so called privileges are not privileges at all but measures against discrimination.”On the same page we... Read More

Abortion mum’s decision

Re: abortion, It is entirely the mother's decision to abort and nobody else's business to criticise! I agree that abortion clinics are necessary to abort badly deformed... Read More