Dear Editor I expect that may of the BFD’s readers will be aware of the Maunga authority’s move to fell the “exotic” trees from Mt Albert/Owairaka, but they may not be aware that there are plans to apply the same policy to all of the maunga under
Dear Editor This is a letter I have sent to our local MP. I just cant believe how the National Party have been suckered by this climate change bulldust. So National has supported the coalition’s Zero Carbon bill. I am so disappointed. Prior to the industrial revolution, except for
Send your letters to the Editor to sb at thebfd.co.nz Please put Letter to the Editor in the subject line. The BFD has a Letter to the Editor section. I invite readers to submit their thoughts on issues that they feel strongly about. You can take a position
Dear Editor Eureka! I may have found the most obnoxious mayoral candidate profile in the local body elections, standing for Tauranga. Here is her candidate profile as sent out by Council for the current election. Here is a copy of her responses to a survey of candidates conducted by the
Dear Editor I could not resist clapping at Mass this morning when a letter from Cardinal Dew was read out, advising congregants of the resignation of Charlie Farlie [Ed. Charles Drennan] Back in March 2015, just a few days after Charles Drennan took over from Protestant Pete as bishop of
Dear Editor The NZ Herald does an excellent job of republishing the failings of Trump, his wife and his children. The problem is that the internet gives the New Zealand public uncontrolled access to news sources other than the mainstream media. Breitbart News and Infowars being prime examples. Publications like
Dear Editor I am going through a pessimistic stage over the future of New Zealand. I can see Western civilisation being defunct in about 20 years and climate change has nothing to do with it. The problem as I see it is a combination of immigration, declining European birth rate,
Dear Editor, Following on from my earlier letter, the Press referred to the three “leading candidates” (Minto, Dalziel and Park) as “Mayoral hopefuls”. But that has now gone and it is back to “leading candidates”. And no independent poll has been published to support this ongoing contention. Since then there
Dear Editor I’m currently studying for a certificate in Horticulture through the Open Polytechnic of NZ. It is quite interesting, but it is filled with irrelevant cultural information. This course is supposed to be based on science. It is filled with information on how Maori felt about plants and
Are you “bigger” than a cigarette or a vaper? Would you REALLY like to shake off the domination they have over you? Here is how. I had smoked a packet of 20 daily for a matter of 35 years, however as a hospital worker I knew at the time that
Dear Editor, I am one of 13 Mayoral candidates in the Local Authority election for the Christchurch City Council. I took my policy brochure into The Press‘s office. I also sent my photograph to the editor Kamala Hayman. There was no response. Two weeks later The Press published a
By Robert Arthur Tuesday afternoon on RNZ Wallace Chapman was on with his usual all-accepting attitude and Maori advocate Scott Campbell. I was disappointed by the usual supercilious attitude toward critics of universal Te Reo promotion. If polled entirely confidentially I suspect the attitudes today would still be the same
A couple of years ago now, I pointed out that Professor Michael “hockey stick” Mann was gonna be in big trouble. Through the Canadian court system, he had sued a real scientist, Dr Tim Ball, for libel because Ball had publicly claimed that Mann “belongs in the state pen, not
