Richard Prince, D. Holm and Mary Brooks were right to express their concern and disagreement with both the substance and expressions used by Tommy Kapai in his item... Read More

You don't need to have much of a brain to realize that if Maori were as amazing navigators and sailors as they make out to be, their seagoing crafts would be in... Read More

In his letter of Friday 26 October, Robin Bell of Omanawa wrote in his insult to D Gordon, 'Polynesian sea farers travelled and conquered the largest ocean on earth... Read More

To Mr. Bell. Telling the truth is not being ‘shallow' as you claim. Your belief in the settlement process is false either deliberately or through ignorance.... Read More

Excellent letter by D Gordon, The Weekend Sun 19 October. He might be interested to know that there was a Raft Book issued to every Merchant ship and Aircraft crossing... Read More

In answer to D Gordon The Weekend Sun 19 October 2012, the only historical fact of Maori's using a compass (no GPS then) was about 130 years ago when Te Rauporaha... Read More

Up until recently, my partner and I had become totally cheesed off with the New Zealand political scene.We have National selling us off overseas, Labour as fascinating... Read More

Re-introduction of the rail service between Tauranga and Auckland: there are some points which everyone should be aware of. The previous railcar service was run... Read More

What a great idea about reigniting a passenger rail service between Tauranga/Auckland. Though there does seem to be a prevailing 'unlikely” attitude - this... Read More

I once was told that if you paid peanuts, you got monkeys. Local Ratepayers pay large dollars and still get monkeys, how does that work out?To start with, a knee... Read More

We have heard of a new initiative proposed by the Minister to deal with child abuse which has grown to alarming proportions over the past few years.Unfortunately... Read More

The revaluation of assets at Baypark by many millions is a bit of a joke, anyone in the know here realises that all were constructed in line with the lease term... Read More