Letters to the Editor

Gone with the wind

Tauranga City Council 75 decibels weak Tsunami warning: The Weekend Sun June 3 2011 revealed the above brief comment.Imagine an off shore, strong, noisy westerly... Read More

Then why fortifications?

I've been following with interest the interchange of letters regarding Maori history and culture and a recent sentence stating that ‘pre European Maori were... Read More

Mount speed limits ‘lunacy’

The new TCC Council speed limit cuts, in accordance with Council staff recommendations, to 30 kph in the northern area of the Mount is lunacy. Rather, TCC should... Read More

Lack of enforcement

What sort of traffic management advisor would come up with the idea of reducing a 50kph speed limit to 30kph? To have a speed limit of 18.6 miles per hour is ludicrous,... Read More

Close call on crossing

Recently TCC contractors installed a wonderful new pedestrian crossing over Maunganui Rd, in front of the Mt Maunganui Library.With my smashed knee, (complete with... Read More

Pool numbers just don’t add up

I am amazed to read the paper and see some strange things being printed from official sources but they just don't add up and so make sense at all.TCAL's CEO says... Read More

Show ratepayers are not subsidising gym

Reading Faulkner's Corner you can see why our council and the city is in such a bad way. I was one of many who thinks that the rate payers were subsidising bay wave... Read More

Mercury in amalgam ‘poisoning us'

I read recently an advertisement in the local paper expounding the so-called virtues and superior properties of amalgam fillings containing mercury.I was shocked!... Read More

Does anyone else consider Baycourt music

It seems that every time we go to a musical performance at Baycourt we go to have our eardrums assaulted. Modern technology can produce excellent amplification... Read More

Transaction tax for disasters

I have always thought we live in a fools' paradise in New Zealand. Now, the ongoing Christchurch quakes, and the insurance companies' problems, are truly showing... Read More

Totally unnecessary cost on ratepayers

I agree with several recent correspondent's expression of displeasure regarding BOP ratepayers funding the travel of 11 people to Canterbury, to take part in a welcome... Read More

Youth rates ‘madness’

A child is from birth to 16 years of age. A youth is a person form the age of 16 to 19. From 19 onwards one is an adult.I am a National supporter and I am outraged... Read More