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Letters should not exceed 200 words and should carry the name, residential address and contact telephone number of the author.

Up the creek without a panel

Re: Preparing for dangerous weather . After dismissing manmade global warming, Ryan Price has moved on to arguing with himself about the consequence: climate change and the need to act. Because nobody has ever disputed...
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We’re going about it all wrong

High density housing defies just about everything that is needed to combat climate change. Total reliance on council for water when we’ve seen how polluted that can become when a cyclone hits, total reliance on...
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Thank you to car show volunteers

On behalf of our committee of volunteers who organise the Auckland Brit & Euro Classic Car Show, we would like to thank Times Newspapers very much for your excellent support for the recent event...
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‘Gutted’ Howick RSA to be sold

Re: Returned Services Club, Howick. I was absolutely shocked when I attended a recent meeting of members of this organisation that was set up to discuss the future of this club given the current...
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Autumn programme – climate resilience

I am the Flat Bush Community Coordinator for the Otara Waterways and Lake Trust. The Otara Waterways and Lake Trust has a mission to restore the waterways of the Otara Catchment, which runs from the...
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Use of rates money

Being involved in a project funded by Auckland Council through the Howick Local Board grants scheme, I think Mr Moore (Times, February 8) needs to look at the recipients of this funding before making...
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Alarming conclusions

Dennis Horne, in “Our children need a miracle” (Times, February 15), jumps to some odd conclusions and, once again, misses the point. He previously claimed that the late Richard Feynman must have believed in the...
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Forestry owners have to be accountable

What is so difficult about making forest owners responsible for the clean-up of slash? They own the trees. Slash is part of the tree, therefore they own the slash. When slash leaves their property and...
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It’s looking scruffy Howick

I am an ex-Howick resident and current visitor . Over the last week while driving and walking around Howick, I am surprised how scruffy the streets look. Weeds growing in the gutters and in cracks...
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Vote no to selling RSA

Seven days’ notice to RSA members to vote to sell 25-29 Wellington Street is bizarre. We have been waiting for two-and-a-half years for the rebuild to start. We were promised a new purpose-built RSA plus a...
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