Letters to the Editor

‘Little Hitler Award’ for fencing rule

Your paper recently published Don Brash's comments about the erosion of private property rights and the problem of over regulation. Soon afterwards Close Up highlighted... Read More

Library blues again

Dealing with the Greerton Library, the current approach is flawed. Forget any expensive upgrades or a renewal, move to eliminate Greerton as a branch with library... Read More

Researching coarse fisherman

Anglers are passionate creatures, and none more so than J. Stewart Smith, the man who brought coarse fishing to New Zealand, introducing rudd, perch and carp to... Read More

The tail is trying to wag the dog

I had a bit of a chuckle over the self-righteous bossy boots from NZ First, writing to your fine paper last week.Fancy telling the media they were 'supposed to be”... Read More

Capital gains con

Labour's proposed Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is not just for the rich who may well deserve such tax, its net will encompass every NZ worker.I am referring to KiwiSaver... Read More

Eden Park will let NZ down

The recent complaints that Eden Park is or will be a dog appear to be well-founded and were obvious from the outset. The vast majority of thinking people wanted... Read More

Greens imitating NZ First

Set out in Winston Peter's Press Releases are the excellent and workable policies of the New Zealand First Party. Unfortunately we do not read them in the 'free”... Read More

No wonder sales are slow

No wonder this country is well behind in ticket sales for World Cup Rugby. A while ago severe ripoffs relating to accommodation charges surfaced, and now we have... Read More

Outstanding Bourke: Ideal for AB back up

Memo to Graeme Henry: If there is a better back up loosey for Richie McCaw in the country than Colin Bourke, then we were all watching the wrong game on Tuesday... Read More

Little quoted from speech

Re 12 August issue. When one sees a photo of Winston Peters, one expects to be able to read about the subject matter. Not about the National Party conference for... Read More

Winston ‘over-ridden’

Not sure whether to laugh or cry upon reading your reporter's write up of Winston Peters' speech last Wednesday. Laugh,as it is obvious that the National Party is... Read More

Taking a swipe?

The Weelend Sun's report (12 August) on Winston Peter's public meeting in Tauranga last week was surely meant to be just that, with a good sized photo of him.... Read More