Letters: House prices, building to last and the Erebus memorial
5 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Is radical Government intervention needed to make it financially prohibitive for speculators to invest so heavily in property? Photo / Michael Cunningham, File
Is radical Government intervention needed to make it financially prohibitive for speculators to invest so heavily in property? Photo / Michael Cunningham, File
NZ Herald
Letter of the week: John Crockett, Kerikeri
A lot of words have been tossed around regarding the housing crisis, generating more heat than light. Congratulations to Fran O Sullivan (Weekend Herald, February 27) for providing the best analysis of the problem to date, and what to do about it.
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WHY ARE OUR TOP SPRINTERS RUNNING AWAY FROM THE NEWMARKET?
February 15, 2021 1:28 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
Over the course of well over a century, the
Newmarket Handicap had established itself as Australia’s most famous and sought-after sprint race. It always enticed big fields, ranging from proven stars with big weights to hopeful lightweights, and carried a big purse that was the holy grail shimmering at the top of that famous straight.
Like so many historic and famous races, Saturday week’s Newmarket is under siege from the far richer pop-ups. Most of the marketing money is being spent on the
Letters: Wastewater rates, public servants, Eden Park and Asian art
22 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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Wastewater renewal rates have been charged for years but the funds have been channeled off for other purposes, one writer says. Photo / Alex Burton
NZ Herald
Letter of the week: Larry Mitchell, Rothesay Bay.
The (Weekend Herald, January 16) reports the plan to raise $106m rates rise . to clean up beaches .
Additional rates such as are proposed, would have been totally unnecessary if Auckland Council had followed its own rules and policies relating to the proper application-expenditure of its wastewater funding reserves.
Included in our rates bills going back almost 20 years, ratepayers have already been billed and have paid in advance the huge sums set aside for wastewater renewals. These funds had been paid, collected and reserved for the works that now need to be completed . to keep sewerage off our city beaches.