Friday, March 29, 2024

Readers' Letters

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...

Botany Probus marks 21 years

Members of the Combined Probus Club of Botany Downs have celebrated their 21st anniversary. The club met recently at Eastview Church in Chapel Road. President Rosemary Ovens welcomed current and past members. She also welcomed foundation...

The difference between us

‘Telling fact from fiction’ (Times, October 26) is entitled. Why he writes about something he does not believe seems odd. It is not original either. If I wrote something silly about his father, he would...

Telling fact from fiction

Way back when time began and humans started to think; a ‘wise man’ was asked “who made the world?” The wise man shrugged and said “God knows”. Over the millennia since then Chinese whispers have...

Remember Passchendaele

In the annals of military history, the World War I battle of Passchendaele is recorded as New Zealand’s worst military disaster. In just a few short hours on a miserable Belgian morning, more than 1000...

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