Letters to the Editor

Doesn’t get any more important

The ‘shovel ready' Northern Arterial Highway which had been reinstated on the infrastructure urgent list prior to the election has been squelched again. The... Read More

Big egos and bad driving

Why are BOP drivers so impatient and such bad drivers? You live in a country five minutes wide by 15 minutes long but the majority of you drive as if you were doing... Read More

Hold a referendum

Can someone please explain why the Tauranga City Council has now made a U-turn and will not be holding a no-extra-cost referendum to the ratepayers when the ratepayers/public... Read More

The meaning of good and bad

An interesting day, November 25. The Reserve Bank manager said ‘we can't control houses prices, it is not our business,' yet that is exactly what he has... Read More

Rubbish bins

I have just received my water rates from the Tauranga Council, included with it is a drawing of the rubbish bins we have to pay another very large fee for. There... Read More

Treat volunteers with respect

This letter relates to the report on page 3 of last week's edition of The Weekend Sun regarding the abuse that volunteers at animal rescue centres have been subjected... Read More

Free us from gridlock

In reply to F De Graaf on the new speed limits (The Weekend Sun, November 27, page 28). I'm pretty sure most did not agree to 80km/h from Katikati to Tauranga. Most... Read More

More poor behaviour

I must take time out to voice my absolute disgust at the way Mayor Tenby Powell was treated at a meeting, after he announced his retirement from his position as... Read More

Battle of the bins

I would also like to disagree with the new rubbish collection system. As a 90-year-old, living alone, who gets around the house on a walker, there is no way I... Read More

Leadership qualities

The resignation of the mayor of Tauranga was the right decision only he should have done it earlier. He had not done an apprenticeship in Council such as being... Read More

A big thank you

There wasn't much in it for the companies involved in the Tauranga Harbour City Lions Book Fair - apart, perhaps, from making a simple, kind gesture and a little... Read More

Objection to new speed limits

Thirty kilometres per hour, 30, 50, 100, 90, and 80, are just some of the speed restrictions we, in the Western Bay have put up with so roading can become safer. Now,... Read More