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

Watch where you sit

I went into my local Pakuranga Library on Saturday (January 28) and sat in one of the lovely padded computer chairs only to find it soaking wet with someone’s urine! Some disgusting person had sat...
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Use of rates money

I am disturbed that the local board (and the Auckland Council) can play Santa Claus with our rates money. We pay our rates demand with the expectation that the money will be used to provide...
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Consequences could be catastrophic

Re: Scientific facts can change, (Lilia Sevillano, Times, February 1). Lilia Sevillano directs me to a museum at the “University of Berkeley” for a lesson in science. In return I direct her to a professor...
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Speaking for the dead

Dennis Horne (“Unequivocal evidence”, Times, January 18) implies that Richard Feynman supported Arrhenius’ theory because “why did he not say so?”. Quite bold that, claiming to know the mind of the dead. Two main theories seek...
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Panmure bridge chaos

For quite a few years, Howick/Pakuranga commuters have successfully used the Panmure Bridge with the overhead lane lights allowing two lanes into the city in the morning and two lanes the other way in...
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Scientific facts can change

In response to D. Horne’s sweeping generalisation that ‘deniers are wrong’, I’d like to point out that there is truth to the statement that science is never settled. I direct him to the University...
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NZ a bastion of democracy

Thanks for publishing my letter (Times, January 18, “Russia must pay”. May I point out that sadly SA in this letter stands for South Africa and not Saudi Arabia; or more correctly, the South...
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You get what you ask for

If they continue telling us there will be a recession, customers will reduce spending and retailers and suppliers will increase prices to recover costs. And yes, we will indeed have a recession. You will get...
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Tarred with the same brush

Driven by government and Reserve Bank intervention, including printing money according to a leading financial journalists, has found Labour’s Covid-19 policies have made the wealthy sector hundreds of billions richer while the poor sunk...
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Deniers are wrong

Re: Climate fearmongering (H. Weekers, Times, November 23). H. Weekers writes, “Lots of scientist do not subscribe to the doomsday scenario ...” Given time, I could name 150,000 scientists publishing on climate science who broadly endorse...
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