Letters to the Editor
'We want to be well-informed'
Friday 20 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to the ‘Does TIS support seabed mining?’ Smoke Signal of September19, TIS responds as follows: Te Ipukarea Society has never indicated its support or opposition to seabed mining.
Changes to NZ Super 'exciting'
Friday 20 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, A big thank you to those individuals who championed the cause to be able to access NZ superannuation through the proposed change to the requirements for eligibility.
Based on results
Thursday 19 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to the letter from ‘Sideline Observer’ (CIFA has a responsibility to ‘tell it like it is’, September 17) as far as we are concerned the headline ‘Tupapa defeats Sokattak’ was based on the results of the main Premier Men’s match played that weekend, which was briefly previewed in the paper on the same day.
Closest America's Cup yatch race yet
Tuesday 17 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
This year the America’s Cup yacht race in San Francisco Bay is closer than it has ever been.
The real conspiracy
Tuesday 17 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The appointment of the Clerk of Parliament or any senior position in government for that matter is subject to a selection process that does not involve hand-choosing by the Prime Minister or any other politician.
CIFA has a responsibility to 'tell it like it is'
Tuesday 17 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, ‘Nikao Sokattak defeats Tupapa’ or so it should have read on Monday September 9 sports wrap up of the previous weekend’s football results.
Cook Islands in an economic pothole?
Tuesday 17 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, MFEM’s economic advisor James Webb’s letter to the editor last Wednesday September 11 (Problem of inflation in the local economy), did little to allay my fears about the mind set and culture of thinking in that organisation.
'This is transparency in progress'
Tuesday 17 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The Leader of the Opposition states on your front page that our watchdog bodies are suppressed (Watchdog bodies suppressed, September 16).
Road traffic info already available
Monday 16 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The comments by Secretary of Health Elizabeth Iro and her Minister Nandi Glassie regarding road traffic accidents are mere rhetoric.
For the love of Nikao Sokattak
Monday 16 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I’m usually someone that would shy away from saying anything through this medium.
The buck stops with the PM
Monday 16 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The denial by the Prime Minister’s spin doctor Trevor Pitt that the PM has not been involved in the selection process of the position of clerk of parliament is just that; a blind and blunt denial.
Second round of reminder letters!
Saturday 14 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, We the Grey Power members have been disrespectfully treated by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Management in the following manner.
Lovely local lady 'one in a million'
Saturday 14 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, My flight on Friday (September 6) morning was cancelled due a broken aircraft window.
Who will we turn to when everyone's gone?
Saturday 14 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Tena ano tatou katoa, These days I’m back spending a bit more time living where my life began more than sixty years ago – at Opoutama at the base of the isthmus of the Mahia peninsula.
Fond memories
Friday 13 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It was with sadness I heard of the passing of John Tini.
Roads more narrow and dangerous
Friday 13 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, During the Avarua water upgrade this government promised the public that the roads dug up and trenched would be returned to their original condition once the new water pipes had been laid and tested.
'He jumps ship when it suits'
Thursday 12 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have been reading with interest the never ending saga that seems to follow Norman George wherever he goes and it is about time that our major political parties made a stand against Norman George.
Thank you MMR
Thursday 12 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Te Ipukarea Society would like to thank the Ministry of Marine Resources for the excellent Pelagic Fisheries Report published in your newspaper, on Saturday, September 7.
'Venomous attacks' entertaining
Wednesday 11 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I don’t and won’t buckle from the bullying and venomous attacks of Norman George.
Animals need a more spacious home
Wednesday 11 September 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As an animal lover, I would like to see the Esther Honey Foundation animal clinic moved to a better place with room for the animals, and away from residential areas.
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