Friday, April 19, 2024

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

Has the HVA got it right?

I am writing with concern and mainly confusion with the re-branding of what was originally the HBA – Howick Business Association, then the HVBA (Howick Village Business Association) and now recently rebranded as the...
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A good time to remember the past

Tis the season of good will, except for baby Will: deprived of the specific care his loving parents desperately begged to secure from the NZ Blood Service who, out of hubris, simply refused to...
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Zumba helped me back to good health

A community Zumba programme is bringing me back normal life. A life changing event happened to me in 2016 which nearly left me paralysed. Zumba was one of exercises that got my body moving...
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Climate hope

Oh dear. Your correspondent, Dennis Horne, seems to believe the politicians who are telling him that the world is doomed unless he pays more taxes. Yes, the “claims” I make are based on publicly available...
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Emergency housing

Re: Millions invested in emergency housing (Times article by Chris Harrowell, November 16). National MP Simeon Brown is appalled at the cost of emergency housing. Well he might be, but it was National that sold...
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Three Waters ram raid

Sometimes a phenomenon so uncannily manifests the undercurrents of the times from which it sprang that it becomes the vivid symbol of them. Ram-raids: children running amok on behalf of a gang to smash through...
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Is this really democracy?

When you appoint people who are totally unqualified for the portfolios they are given at great cost to taxpayers, they set up bureaucracies to do the work for them. Because the ministers in charge of...
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What’s happening at out local pool?

I am a mum of three in east Auckland. I wanted to bring to your attention a local issue that I feel is extremely relevant at this time of year. My hope is that you...
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Those Boy Racers

Just lately things are not OK Around the streets of Cockle Bay Those mad boy racers have us fuming With their constant noisy zooming Back and forth and up and down Hooning round our part of town They’re hanging out...
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Wichman shouting at the Moon

I thought Bob Wichman had retired! In reality old politicians never actually retire, they just can’t help interviewing their own keyboard and then go on about “our politicians”. In Bob “which way“ Wichman’s latest epistle in...
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