David Dalton is quite right (Weekend Sun 28 September) - there is an urgent need for a passenger rail service between Tauranga, Hamilton and Auckland and further... Read More

What a good idea from David Dalton. My wife and I would love to go to Auckland every so often but as we are now OAPs we find the 2 1/2 to 3 hour drive each way... Read More

It's interesting that the City Council are negotiating with this food company in the hope of getting them to set up here in Tauranga. I wonder if they are more interested... Read More

One's ethnicity, a mere accident of birth, is irrelevant to a civilized society. Relevant is one's contribution to society, whatever one's ethnicity. Kees de Leeuw,... Read More

Just last week I noticed a repeat of a set of Tauranga lights either failed or switched off, ie; Cameron Rd/Elizabeth St lights.I was at a meeting adjacent to the... Read More

Well said Rob Colmore from Hairini , Richard Prince, Welcome Bay and Hylton Rhodes,Tauranga. (last week's Letters ) People need to be aware of just what has gone... Read More

I have recently returned to live in the Mount, and, being unable to drive, have taken to walking our streets. And I am appalled and disturbed at what I see. Many... Read More

How refreshing to read someone commenting on his mixed heritage of Maori and Scot, and how a visit to a museum in Scotland had shown him the past injustices suffered... Read More

On September 18 TV showed a fisheries protection program where officers checked cars and boats leaving the water, for undersized fish and over quota.One boat had... Read More

Dear Sir Rapete: With all the secrecy around who can spy on who and who isn't telling the big boss who said what, it all sounds a bit like Maxwell Smart's Cone of... Read More

I see that TCC (16/9/12) is considering painting blue lines across roads around Tauranga to indicate to residents the distance from the coast tsunamis may reach,... Read More

What an amazing 40th anniversary ‘Wurlitzer Weekend' - 600 school students attending a Friday session, special afternoon tea on Saturday for those connected... Read More