Letters: QR scans, fair pay, PC gone mad, under delivery, and silencing the military
9 May, 2021 05:00 PM
8 minutes to read
In a letter in Thursday s Herald Heng Teoh wrote that all retailers should refuse to serve any person who failed to scan the QR code. Photo / Greg Bowker
In a letter in Thursday s Herald Heng Teoh wrote that all retailers should refuse to serve any person who failed to scan the QR code. Photo / Greg Bowker
NZ Herald
QR scans elude the phoneless In a letter in Thursday s Herald Heng Teoh wrote that all retailers should refuse to serve any person who failed to scan the QR code.
Letters to the editor: Housing Available, unequal wealth and population growth
24 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
7 minutes to read
Letter writers have reacted to housing available in New Zealand and Kiwis coming back home. Photo / File
Letter writers have reacted to housing available in New Zealand and Kiwis coming back home. Photo / File
NZ Herald
Housing Available
The housing shortage we are facing has taken a long time to develop, over a decade. The shortage is part of the reason houses are now so expensive.
There is no quick solution because the building industry does not have capacity to further increase supply. More materials, more machinery and more skilled workers are needed for that to happen. However supply has been ramped up to record levels. Sections are not really in short supply, there are thousands of new and infill sites available and properties are now changing hands all over the city to be redeveloped with more dwellings than before and suitable sites are being sold lik