Letters to the Editor

Public transport

With regard to L.W Chandler signalling a bus that refused to stop (The Weekend Sun, January 17, page 26). Years ago London Transport had plastered all over their... Read More

Time for better

Over the summer break I went on holiday to Raglan with my family - myself, my wife and my two kids. While we were there, we took our two girls to the skate bowl... Read More

Taking the bet

P Dolden (The Weekend Sun, January 10, page 28), I'll bet you twenty dollars that President Trump is returned to office. J Lash, Hawera. ... Read More

Adding more names

The Tauranga mayor has proposed that we could use Maori street names more often. I believe that we should leave it to the developers and builders, and that Maori... Read More

The truth about Iran

I read by P Dolden's letter (The Weekend Sun, January 10, page 28) concerning Iran with incredulity. "The assassinations of foreign officials going about their... Read More

A planet-overwhelming decade

The $40million Main Freight hub at Te Maunga (BOP Times headline 30 Dec 2019) is heralded as a boom for business and profits but is it really such a good thing?... Read More

Up the gum tree

Daniel Hutchinson (The Weekend Sun, January 10, page2) has obviously bought into and swallowed the hysteria and fashionable new age phenomenon labelled ‘Çlimate... Read More

Stopping the bus

On Friday, January 10, I went and sat in the bus stop near Melrose Village to catch a bus to Cameron Rd. After a couple of minutes one appeared at the top of Waihi... Read More

Drain the TCC swamp

Harington Street carpark debacle has been unfolding/unravelling since 2005/6. At the outset I maintained the planned TCC Carpark, (estimated at $5million) should... Read More

Coincidence?

I have been wondering why councillors had suddenly decided to gift the land in Mission Street over to Maori despite the fact Tauranga ratepayers had paid $1.5m for... Read More

The favoured few

Against all evidence and public opinion Tauranga City Council has voted to give 11 Mission street to Otamataha Trust, which in my opinion is totally irresponsible. Legally... Read More

What were they doing there?

Let me state first that our thoughts go out to the victims and families of the terrible tragedy of the death and agony of many of those caught up in the tourist... Read More