Letters: Vaccine roll-out, Australian travel, dental care and trains
9 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
9 minutes to read
NZ Herald
Speed it up Three weeks after the Pfizer vaccine arrived in the country, we find out only 5 per cent of the available doses currently in the country have been administered.
With the risk of border workers being infected, again demonstrated by a flight crew member over the weekend, one has to ask why the Government continues its go slow programme. Come on Minister Hipkins – get the other vaccines such as Moderna and AstraZeneca approved ASAP (they have been successfully administered to millions by now). Secondly – get a move on with the rollout of the vaccine in the country now.
Letters: House prices, building to last and the Erebus memorial
5 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
7 minutes to read
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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Letters: Teen drivers, Unitary Plan, Queenstown tourism and David Seymour
19 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
7 minutes to read
NZ Herald
Letter of the week: Ainsley Dermody, Katikati.
A sleeping coastal village at 1am is shattered by a screaming engine, a loud bump and an even louder crash. The power goes off and a car horn goes on and on and on.
Outside, a woman is calling emergency services, one teen is running down the road and another is screaming, holding an RTD with blooming lip.
And an unconscious teen driver is being shaken by a teen girlfriend, screaming for him to wake up.
Letters: Covid lessons, TEC funding cuts, John Roughan and summer TV
1 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
8 minutes to read
NZ Herald
Letter of the week: John Ford, Taradale If there is one thing I have learnt this past year, it is this: we can do things if we want to.
We had money for everything Covid. We could create jobs, we could extend immigration and we could afford to fill the car with petrol.
We could get to the South Island on a budget never before seen, Queenstown actually valued the Kiwi visitor.
Many ivory castles were destroyed by Covid. Where there was a bureaucratic minefield of rules and regulation, somehow, they were excused in 2020.