Letters to the Editor

Drinkers are not thinkers

Your headline in The Weekend Sun October 26. 'Think before you drink.”Do you really expect serious drinkers to think? Because that is why they are serious... Read More

Re-think of Tauranga airport role is needed

Re-think of Airport Use: In the past the argument for not allowing international flights to/from Tauranga airport seems to have centred on the bio-security risk.... Read More

Good work, Mr Morris

I am writing to applaud the efforts of Mr Steve Morris of the Papamoa Progressive Association to find a cheaper more effective Tsunami warning system for Mount and... Read More

Fees astound

Kiwi Saver I was absolutely blown away when I read that $125 million was taken out as fees from Kiwisaver by Milford Asset Management and Fisher Funds. Yet another... Read More

Railcars: Poorly maintained

As a former locomotive engineer, assigned to work on the Silver Fern railcars, replaced on the Auckland - Wellington main line by a passenger train, and these railcars... Read More

Self appointed apologist

Peter Dey apparently sees himself as the local self-appointed apologist for Maori interests intent on enshrining Tititi o Waitangi as supreme law of any new Constitution... Read More

Stream of insistent demands

I've been puzzling over the stream of insistent demands being made of the PM by 'Maori elite” for compensation for a variety of government 'misdeeds”,... Read More

Water rights debacle

The water rights debacle has gone on long enough. The Maori say they own it because they were here first, John Key says no-one owns it, then plans to float 49% of... Read More

Adding to the drivel from ‘one eyed peop

I hate to add to all this drivel we have from one eyed people from the Maori or white groups but just a oncer.I have no doubt whatsoever that the colonials burned... Read More

They don’t want to be involved

So Maoris are under-represented in law and medicine. Oh dear how sad what a shame. Doesn't the individual stop and think that it may be the situation because they... Read More

Courage to state facts

How quick some people are to attack Mary Brooks for stating the facts that most of us would like to say, but lack the courage. For Robin Bell to call her 'prejudiced”... Read More

Maori badly mistreated

My, my what a lot of sunburnt necks we have in our community.Even a cursory reading of our country's history for the last 172 years show how badly Maori were treated.... Read More