Letters to the Editor

Govt should fund St John!

I hear it's time for St John Ambulance to go fundraising….what does it take for the public to demand that the Government fully funds this essential service... Read More

Council is not a business…

Re: ‘Morris - let's set the record straight' letter by Tommy Wilson (The Weekend Sun, April 1). Mr Wilson criticised remarks made by Councillor Steve Morris... Read More

The cultural economy reigns supreme

Co-governance demands separately-funded ownership and control of education, health, welfare, conservation, legislation, separate voting system. It calls for the... Read More

Here’s a solution…

I have a simple solution that would satisfy the disgruntled who lament their growing piles of glass. Introduce a refund/redeem scheme and you will hear no further... Read More

Thank you for the support!

To The Weekend Sun, we, at The Falls Café, just wanted to let you know that last weekend's fundraiser, dishing up Ukrainian delights, to raise funds to support... Read More

Dear Rogers Rabbits

How kind of you to offer NZ ‘missiles' to Ukraine in lieu of money. I'm willing to bet that your paper would be the first to rant and rave against the Labour... Read More

No democracy, no rates!

I grew up in Apartheid-era South Africa when the rallying cry was ‘One Man, One Vote'. I never expected I would be calling out this slogan in my adopted ‘free'... Read More

My views on the council

Re: Tauranga's rent-a-crowd. Every Tauranga City ratepayer should be extremely grateful to both Roger Rabbit and Steve Morris for pointing out how very corrupt [in... Read More

Thanks Tauranga Hospital – You rock!

I was recently taken to Tauranga Hospital in the early hours of the morning with bad abdominal pains. I was so surprised to realise that Pathlab was working and... Read More

Can we keep the drains clean?

Council please could you answer this question. Each year we have autumn rains and some cause massive flooding on the roadside. When it happens we hear about the... Read More

Where is our leadership?

Congratulations must be recorded twice to Roger Rabbits. Firstly, for his March 18 valid and appropriate comments on Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta's dictatorial... Read More

We need a petition to Parliament

I am 86 years young, wear a hearing aid and are despairing of the people of Tauranga. We need to mount a campaign with a written petition to get our democractic... Read More