Letters to the Editor

Recycling garden pots

A visit to the garden centre used to involve a lot of empty plastic plant pots thrown out to landfill. It was a terrible waste of plastic, but growers would not... Read More

Three Waters and TCC

What part of Tauranga citizens' objections to Three waters does Commissioner Tolley not understand? Some 95 per cent of submissions opposed, mostly entirely …... Read More

Two jabs

Just a saying that may help in the Covid vaccination scheme: You might not believe in the invisible man, but the covid bug does. Two jabs and he can't see you no... Read More

Bee-friendly?

I was walking in Faulkner Park near Birch Ave and came across this sign and a barren bit of so-called 'Bee Friendly Garden'. I think not! Not a leaf or flower... Read More

Passing along the thanks

I recently spent 16 days in Tauranga Hospital, and I want to take the opportunity to pay tribute to the care and support that I received from the ladies and gentlemen... Read More

Media control

Goebbel's Nazi psychology 'control the media and you control the minds of the masses” is working well in New Zealand. You won't see this in print so how can... Read More

Never been consulted

I believe we have never been consulted, according to Local Council Laws. I raise this issue as again, our Tauranga City Commissioners and Stuart Crosby talk of... Read More

Hard to accept that explanation

With reference to the Local Government New Zealand article (The Weekend Sun, October 15), I was disappointed with the response, provided by Mr Crosby, which seemed... Read More

Emissions alert!

Less than interesting news from the Sustainable Bay of Plenty people using data from Statistics NZ that was two years out of date. Well of course the BOP's emissions... Read More

Covid-19

The Covid storm is about us, We must pray for the tempest to calm. But we call can be saved, Not by a life belt, But by a small jab in the arm. The human heard... Read More

Helping if you can

Some time ago, the police were trying to locate anyone in the street who might have CCTV - no one could help, which led to this question: Are we really concerned... Read More

To those who complain about Covid

I was born into a world of six years of lockdown. Levels one-to-ten. Men between 17 and 65 were afflicted, but women and children too. Children were uplifted from... Read More