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Monday, April 21, 2025

Letters to the Editor

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Letters should not exceed 200 words and should carry the name, residential address and contact telephone number of the author.

How can a playground cost $10m?

$10 million spent on a playground in Hayman Park Manukau?And there have been two other playgrounds built at the same cost. I have no objections to playgrounds but at what cost? You can build a...
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The wound that must be healed

Everywhere about us are the signs of a people nursing a debilitating unhealed wound. Despite life largely appearing to have returned to some semblance of normalcy, the damage has been done. Kiwis have been twice struck...
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Good use of council funds?

Three council employees working for the second day, clearing the Rotary Walkway, complete with hazard suits and breathing apparatus, after the parks guy found three small (and wet) pieces of fibrolite at the top...
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Trees cut down in reserve

Due to the persistent adverse weather conditions in Auckland since the start of the year, there has been a notable occurrence of landslides and fallen trees within the Mangemangeroa Reserve. Regrettably, it has come to...
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Ukraine fundraising

Dr Elena Artyukh (local Howick dentist for 22 years) and Valeriy Boyko (logistics) both Ukrainian born New Zealanders, joined a global campaign to take action by fundraising to help Ukraine. A supporter from east Auckland...
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How can a this is hypocrisy

BlackRock is the biggest investor in 12 fossil fuel expansion projects that could drain 3/4 of the global carbon budget. Hipkins’ ignorance, including the threat spent solar panels pose to future generations’ drinking...
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Voting concerns

The ballot boxes should be sealed both top and bottom. Also they should be numbered and every one accounted for. At present it is far too easy for an additional box to be smuggled in...
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Family violence

New Zealand is now ranked as the worst developed country in all OECD countries for family violence and that’s with one in three cases not reported. Clearly schools have a vital role in prevention. What...
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Déjà WHO?

National sovereignty, hopefully, has not fallen so far outside Kiwis’ reckoning that we would let it slip away. Our leadership’s political and cultural opportunism and the media’s incessant alarmism, hopefully, has not so worn us...
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Marine Parade’s air raid shelters

On August 1, the NZ Herald on page A3 had photographs of Marine Parade, Howick, subsidence. From January 31, 1942, during World War II, the Government requested all homeowners to build an air raid shelter. They...
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