Re: ‘I just don’t understand why’ (Letters page 16, The Weekend Sun July 28 edition).
Further to the letter from Jackie and Neil Stewart re: the use of Te Reo in communications, we also are annoyed at having this language forced upon us by many parts of social media. We don’t understand lots of the words used and don’t recall a vote or survey to decide if New Zealanders are happy to have the name of their country, towns etc changed.
Tauranga City Council is arrogant in its assumption that it’s okay to change names to a language spoken by a very small minority ignoring the majority who wish it to remain English. This has only come about in the last few years. Please let us put a stop to this before no English is spoken at all.
AA & J Kravitz, Pāpāmoa.