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Talented athletes and the slippery slide of fizzy drinks

Friday 3 October 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,Yesterday marked the annual Prince of Wales athletics sports day for the Primary schools of Rarotonga.

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Keep it in the family

Friday 3 October 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,The story in Thursday's newspaper of the old house in Grey Lynn known as the "Cook Islands Embassy" is fascinating.

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Do we need to know?

Thursday 2 October 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I refer to your paper dated Tuesday 30 September on Page 5 re “Asylum seekers live in fear”

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'Me e Keretitiano koe, aere mai kia aravei taua'

Wednesday 1 October 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Kia Orana Etita,Me ka tika ia koe kia tuku atu i taku pauanga ki te reta a “Demo Maromaro’a” ki roto i taau nuti pepa.

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'Kare ratou e akara oonu atu ana i te ora'anga ote Basileia'

Wednesday 1 October 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Kia Orana Etita,Te inangaro ua au i te oora atu i toku manako no runga i te nuti a Wilkie Rasmussen

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Puaikura volunteers keeping the peace

Tuesday 30 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,On behalf of my security team here at the Edgewater Resort and Spa, we applaud and congratulate the Puaikura Volunteers in Policing members who work together with the village police in keeping the peace on this side of the Island and village of Arorangi.

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Meitaki maata dog control officer

Tuesday 30 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,On behalf of the people in the Takuvaine Valley, I want to publically thank the good work the dog control officer Don Tua is doing with the out of control dog population.

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Dog control, not culling

Tuesday 30 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,As a volunteer veterinarian, word that the Cook Islands Police Service have instigated a dog control strategy based on killing animals has me frustrated and heartbroken.

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The 'caretaker' role has expired

Monday 29 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,I was interested in your front page story Saturday (27.09.14) but more particularly Mr Anthony Brown's quoted observations that no elected member of Parliament

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Why is there a back tax?

Friday 26 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,We all know there is a back tax of two years’ worth, for those receiving the NZ pension but has anyone asked the obvious question....

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Muchas Gracias to local police force

Thursday 25 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, In the 21 months we have been living here we can’t help but notice a lot of criticism aimed at the local police force.

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Authorities issuing permits for more disaster zones?

Thursday 25 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Following your recent publication of a photo of coastal protection units (CPU's) mistakenly identified as rock revetments,here are photos of REAL rock revetments.

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'The dog wags the tail, not the tail wag the dog?'

Wednesday 24 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

The tax issue facing the CIP would not have been so emotional if they had taken a very measured and emphatic approach to its introduction.

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'Democratic Party are on the right path to appeal'

Wednesday 24 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,I write in response to Mark Browns open letter to the Editor on Saturday 20 September 2014.

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Grey Power will march and against doctors' orders

Tuesday 23 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,The spiralling unbudgeted post election expenses which has gone viral and out of control is a disaster for the country and the Government in particular who, after being reduced to a care-taker status with limited authority to operate efficiently, is just inching along, so to speak on two flat tyres.

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Keep your word, refund elderly

Tuesday 23 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,Mark Brown should keep his word and refund the elderly papa’s and mama’s whose bank accounts he as Minister of Finance raided instead of putting his foot in his mouth with his flimsy comments on petitions.

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A graduated approach needed to reduce road deaths

Monday 22 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,I write with a personal sense of sadness and frustration on the on-going deaths of young people on the roads whose lives could have been saved.

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'Withdraw your lies or face the consequences'

Monday 22 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,Re – Mark Brown’s letter to the Editor dated 20.09.2014. Mark Brown wrote:

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Nearly half a million dollars on wasted court appeals?

Saturday 20 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, I think the Cook Islands Party can feel twice vindicated in the High Court rulings of the recent electoral petitions brought against them by the Demo Party.

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'Tooth decay is a white man's infliction and fluoride is their poisonous answer'

Saturday 20 September 2014 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,What ever happened about the fluoride debate or more importantly what decisions have been made by the health department?

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