Letters to the Editor

Bureaucratic ploys

Your regular correspondent, Ian Stevenson, questions the excessive expenditure of TCC in recent times, giving 4 examples.The ‘anonymous' reply from TCC staff... Read More

Inheritance and betrayal

In response to the views of T. Tukaokao:1. Your use of the term ‘Racist' is contrary to it's definition. I suggest consulting the (English) dictionary. A... Read More

City partners, council, more secret reco

I refer to the editor's note attached to my letter to the editor on 24-Dec-2010.The comment is apparently from some nameless soul at Council? It would seem that... Read More

Media moaning

Alastair Bourne's letter (24 Dec), emphasised that he was not to happy to have this rotten council in power for another three years and moaning letters to the editor,... Read More

Simon Bridges responds:

Along with restoring the right to go to Court, the Marine and Coastal Area Bill also allows parties to settle out of Court where the facts are clear. Where the outcome... Read More

Mexico: Hot air for no results

Global politicians, United Nations personnel, globe trotting environmentalists, activists, journalists and all their hangers on who went to Mexico to discuss again... Read More

Climate will get worse:

Re our world's climate havoc during the last month of 2010. I am now sure that those record freezes in the northern hemisphere and droughts, floods and bushfires... Read More

City partners ‘rort’

Ref Ian Stevenson's letter The Sun Friday 24/12 ' Bottomless chequebook of the TCC ratepayer”.I agree that the awarding of major contracts by TCC to so called... Read More

Counter action on the Western Front

A response to 'The Western Front”:I fully agree that Katikati is the chosen place to be in the article by Brian Anderson in The Weekend Sun of 7 January, but... Read More

Secret negotiations for political favour

In his article on marine and coastal areas (Sun 7/1) Simon Bridges MP performed a typical snow job on explaining the Marine and Coastal Area Bill. He says that access... Read More

Reforms responsibility

In ‘Faulkners Corner' Friday 17 December, Bill again shifts the responsibility for a fiscally out of control council onto local government reforms of 1989... Read More

Rough Cherrywood parking

I am writing with regard to the uneven surface in the privately owned car park at Cherrywood Shopping Centre. It has been some months in this sorry and untidy state.... Read More