Friday, April 26, 2024

Readers' Letters

Volunteers needed

Recently one of our growers has moved and the small planting unit she looked after has now been moved on to the reserve in the cattle yards behind the container. Until a permanent home is...

Allow me to clarify

My last letter, published contemporaneously with that of Mr Palmer in the edition dated November 2, mostly answers his questions, but for the sake of further clarity – yes, the one true God is...

Climate change solution

Ironically the pandemic spelled out the solution. When the borders were closed, the overly rich with more money than they knew what to do with were forced to spend their ill-gotten gains domestically, sufficient enough...

Democracy to dictatorship?

We have recently had our democratic election for mayor and councillors for the Auckland Council. These people are our elected representatives and the only ones entitled to sit at the council table to decide the...

Cone madness

Uxbridge Road near the Howick Library has become the epicenter of Cone Madness. Auckland Transport (AT) is repairing a driveway entrance so has coned off a football length of Uxbridge Road for some strange reason...

Burswood scheme ridiculous

Why are our politicians supporting the busway from Pakuranga to Botany and beyond? Don’t they get the message? The bus service through Burswood was disbanded due to lack of patronage, and even now most buses...

Which God are we talking about?

Re: God is knowable, (Times, October 12). It looks as if Mr Rosieur’s “knowable God” is probably Christian, although it could also be Jewish if his reference to the Bible is correct. But then what about...

Stop selling land to foreigners

Where is the sense in allowing foreigners to waltz in here, buy up land which they can turn around an immediately lease – or should I say fleece – innocent hard-working New Zealanders? much...

Howick War Memorial Hall must re-open

Re the item in the Times ‘I am not going to be bullied’ (Times, October 26), I am concerned about Adele White’s attitude to the re-opening of the Howick War Memorial Hall. Her response to...

Ideological interference

Our Prime Minister’s September 23 UN speech seemed to indicate that our collectivist politicians and corporatists believe our national soul is so completely in their hands that no careless revelation of the mangled sentiment...

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