Letters to the Editor
My 3c worth
Thursday 11 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Kia orana editor, I understand that if the Pacific Games event is for an international qualifying event, then ‘open’ eligibility applies (depending on that international federation’s rules). I believe league Nines fulfils this criteria so the majority of both the men’s and women’s teams came from overseas.
Paying MPs to rake up the leaves
Thursday 11 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, Parliament sat for 13 half-days. Let’s round that up to seven full days. Now MPs get an extra $20,000 – that’s an extra $2,857.00 per sitting.
Asking parents about meth
Thursday 11 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, In early 2017 I wrote to the then Minister of Health and asked if he would co-ordinate a meeting between his departments of Health and Justice, together with Education and Police, to discuss how government might take a co-ordinated approach to the coming Meth epidemic. The Minister was not convinced the issue was a priority.
We must demand research on water chlorine
Wednesday 10 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Government should stop misleading us about chlorine in our water supply.
Thirteen years of pay rises hard to justify
Tuesday 9 July 2019 | Written by Melina Etches | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The 45 per cent pay raise? I agree with the 2.5 per cent per year – from the year an MP was elected.
No paradise for gay people
Tuesday 9 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Greetings and allow me to introduce myself. My name is Joe Fox, and I just spent a week visiting your beautiful country.
Will cars stop them walking?
Tuesday 9 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The purchase of four electric cars for ministers costing $60,000 is interesting, considering Raro Cars were selling Nissan Leaf cars for $17,000 retail each – an affordable option and one that would mean more cars for cash.
Letters: Blessed with enough for all
Saturday 6 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It was a very cold and chilly early morning on Tuesday, when many solar eclipse followers hoped for a clear morning to capture a good view.
Letters: Chlorine concern is a fuss about nothing
Saturday 6 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I fail to see why all the fuss regarding chlorination of Raro's water supply.
Time to man up and send back reluctant MP
Thursday 4 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, As a proud Kiwi citizen of New Zealand Māori and Cook Islands Maori heritage, I have much aroha and patriotism for both Aotearoa, my country of birth, and our beautiful, tiny Te Ipukarea paradise I have had the privilege of calling home, for the past 27 years.
My initials are my identity
Thursday 4 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear editor, I am not happy with my letter you printed in Monday’s paper. I did not give you permission to use my full name.
When we still imprison too many people
Tuesday 2 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, It was refreshing to read the editorial on prisoners by Jonathan Milne and Norman George’s weekly column “The Sift”.
Letters: A dog's life
Monday 1 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I loved your story about taking your dog to Raro and reference to all the wandering dogs.
'It is robbing Peter to pay Puna'
Monday 1 July 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I have been talking with my octogenarian uncle and his friends with regard to the wage increase the members of Parliament have taken upon themselves to award themselves.
MPs get new debating chamber and pay rises – yet no tax cuts
Saturday 29 June 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
It is absurd that the people we elected as our representatives in the House of Parliament have now, thanks to our selections and what they have presented to us as their leadership qualities, have voted themselves huge pay and allowances increases.
Impact on Mama and Papa vendors
Friday 28 June 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Reading the revelation of Punanga Nui market's proposed market hut and tent rent review at first left me bemused and gobsmacked at the sheer stupidity of those who would moot such an outrageously irrational and unsustainable increase.
REFRESHING CHANGE
Friday 28 June 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor In decades of perusing the daily paper this reader cannot recall there ever being a daily editorial. That one has emerged is refreshing indeed, and no doubt most readers will be looking forward to a continuation. Travis Moore
Whistle blowers versus muck rakers
Thursday 27 June 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, I must compliment you for the new policy of not allowing anonymous personal attack letters to be published. I have fought and crusaded against this for years.
'Papa Norm has forgotten his past'
Wednesday 26 June 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, Amnesia: I hope I spell it correctly. I think my good friend Papa Norman George has had such a large dose of it, he has forgotten his past.
'Put kikau broom to minister's backside'
Tuesday 25 June 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor, The behaviour of government in continuing to merrily mis-govern our people and country, with typically blithe disregard and blatant arrogance, has left a sour taste in the mouths of many. As a result of dismay, desperation and economic survival, many of our people have had little choice but to abandon our tiny paradise for “greener pastures” abroad.