Letters to the Editor

Why are we incapable?

Why does the Minister Mahuta assume that Tauranga voters are incapable of choosing new councillors that can govern our city well? L Brewerton, Bethlehem. ... Read More

Bring back the vote!

Would the commissioners be as prepared to do this job if there was no pay or if the pay was the living wage or minimum wage? Projects to be funded by rates and... Read More

A basic civil right

To have government-imposed management of a local body is outrageous in a modern Western society. The people of any community should be able to elect their preferred... Read More

Thank goodness!

Thank goodness Minister Mahuta can't stop the folks in Tauranga from electing a new Member of Parliament, unlike what she has done with her five-year plan for Tauranga. J... Read More

It was meant to be a temporary emergency measure

Tauranga's unelected Commissioners have asked the Government to delay local elections for another year. This is a democratic outrage. Already, New Zealanders have... Read More

Give back our right to choose

I have lived in Tauranga now for nine years and love this city. I think it's about time we were given our right to choose our own council back. The council election,... Read More

Not democratic!

Many of us do not care how the supposedly great and preferred job being done by the ‘Committee' but it is not democratic. We want a democratically elected... Read More

Yeah right!

Re: ‘New Options for Tauranga Residents' on page 10, The Weekend Sun, February 11. Great. I get to ditch the Tauranga City Council bins and the huge cost... Read More

Poem for racial harmony

Sometimes it is hard to see, that every human ancestor came down from the same tree. All our forebears lived on the same plot of African land Living happily together... Read More

Who removed the tree?

Who at the Tauranga City Council ordered the removal of our beloved Oak tree from the roundabout on Cameron Rd and Ninth Ave? Is it council policy that Tauranga... Read More

PYO carless days

Now that petrol and diesel costs are so high to be unaffordable for many, thoughts must go to solving the problem. The Government may mandate carless days again,... Read More

Is this fair and equitable?

The TECT Trustees' restructure' strategy was recently dealt with by the High Court Tauranga and a judgment approving the 'restructure” was given mid -December... Read More