Letters to the Editor

Hollister Lane trucks

Thumbs up to the considerate truck drivers who straddle the useless humps in Hollister Lane and don't accelerate afterwards. You are appreciated by all residents... Read More

Answer to child poverty: Don’t pay people to breed

I just had a read of the next lineup of political hopefuls, and if any one of them is successful, we are doomed! At least 2 of them want to raise the minimum wage... Read More

Humans far from peaceful

It saddened me to read such hatred from someone so misinformed as EM Izett in November 4 edition of The Weekend Sun. It is just such misinformed people that spread... Read More

Get over resentment

Both of the major parties in NZ have to get over their resentment of the groups they resent.In England the Tories have realised that the Aged, The Sick, the Infirm,... Read More

History repeats: Saga of the Golden Master

Re: Letter to editor History Repeats Itself, The Weekend Sun 14 October 2011.It was a bright sunny day on Saturday January 10 1959 when at 4pm the freighter ‘Golden... Read More

No need for bribery

Surely John Key does not have to succumb to bribery in order to win this election. The media are doing a great job in sabotaging the smaller parties with their... Read More

Ships and their engines

Re the Rena debacle and the Schelde Trader's engine stoppage. I have been pondering, while charting my way around the snooker tables at the Mount RSA, this question.... Read More

Why put up the retirement age?

Why is Labour putting up the retirement age up to 67, is this the way they treat the hard working people of NZ and their supporters?Just because a group of people... Read More

Emotive thinking on same sex adoptions

Re the letter from Bill Capamagian regarding same sex adoption.I have known children raised by same sex partners and find them to be no different to those raised... Read More

Free market prices

Max Lewis (Weekend Sun 4 November) misses the point. If National's Max Bradford had not pushed through privatisation and sale of the electricity industry we would... Read More

Questions on asset sales

National never fail to intrigue me. On the Friday night (Election 2011 opening address) October 28 7.30pm TV1, Happy John answered a question with regard to asset... Read More

Underhand in referenda

Government is being very selective and underhand in the forthcoming referenda. They are supposedly giving the public choices but those choices are really ‘clayton's'... Read More