Letters: Starship Children s Hospital, Waiheke marina, Queen St and the Financial Markets Authority
7 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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There are not enough beds at Starship s intensive care unit and the national children s hospital is seeking donations for a $40 million expansion plan. Photo / Michael Craig, File
There are not enough beds at Starship s intensive care unit and the national children s hospital is seeking donations for a $40 million expansion plan. Photo / Michael Craig, File
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Letter of the week: Andrea Dorn, Meadowbank We are so very fortunate to have Starship Children s Hospital, which helps children not only in Auckland but throughout New Zealand.
Letters: Tourism, self-control, Steve Braunias, borders and conversion therapy
16 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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International tourism will never again be as it was, says Tourism Minister Stuart Nash. Photo / Supplied, File
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Lost tourism
While Minister Stuart Nash s comments about the future of tourism in New Zealand may seem overly harsh, he is right in saying that tourism will not return to what it has been.
Visitors from Australia will probably be about the same level but the conditions that made possible large numbers from further afield are unlikely to return.
Many of these were young adventurers who could afford the ever-cheaper fares that competing airlines provided and there was little concern that they could get jobs back home when their trip had ended.
Letters: Ihumātao, Laura Fergusson Trust, savings and police chases
21 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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NZ Herald
Righting a wrong National and Act have strongly denounced the Government s purchase of the contested land at Ihumātao. They say that it will open up a can of worms for more Treaty claims on, private, land in the future.
This piece of land was confiscated by the British settler government from the original owners in 1863, despite that iwi not being in rebellion against the Crown at the time.
Mr Seymour and Mr Mitchell, would do well to ponder that fact, while pontificating about the need to respect the sanctity of private property.