Letters to the Editor
The Coca Cola Cup
Friday 17 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Match report for Coca Cola Cup: Trevor Clarke 2 vs James Beer 0.
Importing Coca Cola from Fiji
Thursday 16 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Noticed recently your Coca Cola drink tastes a little differently from your previous purchases? Check the back label you’ll see ‘Made in Fiji’.
Becoming Kiwis
Wednesday 15 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Leonie Carter (left) and Rainui Marsters were beaming with joy when they gained New Zealand citizenship yesterday.
Recruit Tahitians to fill jobs
Wednesday 15 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It has been thought provoking reading the letters to the editor recently regarding emigration/immigration.
Creating a Cinderella future
Tuesday 14 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to Sel Napa’s letter ‘Racking up Titanium airports’, May 10.
Learn to let sleeping dogs lie
Monday 13 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I noted in last week’s CI News that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is gearing up to investigate Colagate (PAC to consult public on Colagate, May 8) and wondered whether the impact and possible outcomes of investigation have been properly considered.
Crisis in changing fabric of society
Saturday 11 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The public discussions by Paka Worthington and others are certainly worthy of some constructive debate--not so much at a personal level but more at a national level -- as in my view, we are facing a crisis situation, with long term effects to come.
Water needed for our people
Saturday 11 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am surprised that Michael Henry (Community uses Aitutaki fishing club, May 8) has not noticed that I have been a regular letter writer to your newspaper since 2010.
'Name suppression is a privilege'
Saturday 11 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This letter is with regards to the two articles in your newspaper of Friday May 10 (‘Rape case suppression lifted’ and ‘Cannabis accused named’), where you report that Justice Judith Potter has lifted name suppression in cases where they should never have been granted in the first place, in my opinion.
Racking up titanium airpoints
Friday 10 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, This current one term government is a master of the blame game.
'Get rid of this pointless discrimination'
Friday 10 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It was very sad to read Tony Tou’s letter in the paper yesterday regarding the young boy of an immigrant worker who wasn’t allowed to play rugby league under this new rule.
Safe cycling on Raro
Thursday 9 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I would like to express my and other cyclists thanks for the lanes which allow us to walk and cycle in safety on the newish road by the airport runway.
Community uses Aitutaki fishing club
Wednesday 8 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing to correct a few comments in the letter to your paper ‘Alcohol won it over water’ May 7.
Uniting family and tribe
Tuesday 7 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In response to ‘Pa Ariki was the judge and jury’ (May 3) and its references to practices in the 18th century - before people launch into tirades about other people’s manners, they should ask themselves what constitutes ‘manners’ and then discriminate between what is considered correct or unacceptable social behaviour.
Travel costs claim a smoke screen
Tuesday 7 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I refer to statements made in your Smoke Signals column last Friday under the heading ‘travel cost not lower’, by the poor bastard who either has no name or doesn’t have the balls to name himself.
Alcohol won it over water!
Tuesday 7 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I just spent a week in Aitutaki recently, and I was taken aback by a deep feeling of being reattached to my roots.
A tribute to Maori Rangatira
Tuesday 7 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I want to pay personal tributes to a friend, a true Rangatira, Parekura Horomia, and the late Arapeta Tahana.
CIRL's double standards exposed
Tuesday 7 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am a Panthers and Bulldogs supporter as both my sons play for their respective clubs and I would not want any club to be penalized unjustly and treated with prejudice by the CIRL executives.
Panthers imports slick, sharp and strong
Tuesday 7 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Congratulations to the Panthers for an outstanding game on home turf against the feisty and at times fisty Sea Eagles.
Questions and answers on tax
Tuesday 7 May 2013 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In regards to Les Priest’s letter (An insult to senior citizens, April 29) -- if double-dipping means collecting a foreign government payment and also the Cook Islands pension simultaneously, then the answers to the two questions in his last paragraph are yes and yes.
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