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Letters: House prices and cheap money, alcohol harm, exotic trees and electric trams 3 May, 2021 05:00 PM 9 minutes to read One writer says the age-old housing shortage is here to stay and the availability of cheap money will continue to push up prices. Photo / Dean Purcell. One writer says the age-old housing shortage is here to stay and the availability of cheap money will continue to push up prices. Photo / Dean Purcell. NZ Herald It s past time to rein money The 40 years of rising house prices (NZ Herald, April 30) shows a very large increase since 2016. The Government has introduced measures to try and slow down these ....
Letters: Mistakes in Covid response, lockdown fatigue and Auckland weather 4 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM 8 minutes to read Should Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern apologise to the Botany KFC worker who claims she has been unfairly criticised? Photo / Mark Mitchell, File NZ Herald Piling on criticism The demand from the KFC rule breaker that the Prime Minister apologises to her personally, because she thought the messaging wasn t clear enough tells you everything you need to know the how and the why certain people think the rules don t apply to them. Was this person in a coma for the past month ? Their sibling attended a hot spot of infection, Papatoetoe High School. This would have been plastered over all social media. 99.9 per cent of affected people understood this and went home and isolated. ....
Letters: Border protection, quarantine, alert level 4 and contact tracing 14 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 9 minutes to read England is in a third national lockdown in an attempt to curb the spread of coronavirus. Photo / Alastair Grant, AP NZ Herald Raise the drawbridge The year 2020 was without precedent and it has not done with us yet. The geographical advantages of our remote island location together with decisive Government action have protected us from the worst of the accursed Covid-19 but we cannot afford to relax. It is disturbing to read of a number of mariners arriving with symptoms. While it may be criticised as selfish, we should keep the drawbridge up to preserve our relatively secure and controlled situation. ....