Health roadshow: Another side to the conversation
Darrin Hawkes Having attended the Patient Voice Aotearoa roadshow meeting in Whakatāne, I was pleas
Letter: Go for it
Sandra James In response to those who don’t like the current design of the kiwi. Art has always be
Letter: Multicultural Festival participants wanted
Sue Whale Members of the WDC Global Cities Committee met this week to plan a multicultural festival
For Sale: One slightly overused country
David Hick Here’s an idea. Let’s sell New Zealand and sort out all our problems and issues in one t
A right-wing view
D Dawson 1. The National coalition took on a huge debt to be paid back with huge interest payments
Sculpture at odds with nature
Duncan Smith Re my last letter: I felt very strongly that a hideous hulk of rusting metal, blottin
Bringing healthcare closer to East Coast communities
Dana Kirkpatrick for East Cape For people living on the East Coast, access to healthcare has always
Please stop eating tarakihi
Mawera Karetai Last week I was invited to speak at Ocean Acidification in a High CO2 World, a confe
Opinion: Rates rise anyone?
■We all know that council rates rise much faster than the consumer price index (CPI) but don’t let a
Letter: Kiwi Capital of the World
Suzanne Williams This is what Whakatāne has been dubbed locally, with some justification. The Kiwi
Opinion:
■ There is a message many of us absorb very early in life: if you are not “smart enough”, you probab
Letter: Kiwi design misses the mark
Ann Fletcher MFA (hons) I am writing to share my thoughts regarding the proposed 20-foot giant kiwi
Letter: Yes indeed, let’s get behind the current coalition
John Capener Show your support for their initiatives. Light up a cigarette and celebrate the subsi
Letter: Swap planned kiwi for pou
Diana Clark I enjoyed reading the article about the Kawarehe housing development in Wednesday’s Bea
Letter: Symbolic icon
Debz Dickinson Just imagine driving into Whakatāne and seeing an amazing 6-metre-tall contemporary
Letter: A tired rusting 1970s logo
J McKevitt Congratulations to Stephanie Hunt for expressing her opinion on the proposed steel kiwi
Letter: What next?
D Mankelow I have recently been advised that the Whakatāne District Council is now charging a fee f
Letter: Vote for change - nothing has changed
D Dawson The Labour leader says we should vote for change, which is what we did at the last electio
Letter: Obvious error delays licence
Carl Watson My dear wife recently successfully passed her medical and vision test for renewing her
Letter: Surely our kiwi deserve better than this?
Duncan Smith Whakatāne has something extraordinarily special on its doorstep. Within the native re
Letter: Best public art not necessarily the prettiest
Jonathan Kay The proposed large steel kiwi sculpture for Whakatāne has been described in some quart
Letter: Better site for kiwi
Jan Ruijne I agree with Stephanie Hunt (Beacon, October 7). The 20ft sculpture planned on the corn
Letter: Experience versus expertise
David Hick Well said, Keith Melville, in Wednesday’s Beacon regarding not abandoning Tāneatua. At
Letter: Plan reduces farming potential
Alan Ernest I think John Howard, “Man-made climate change disaster, Beacon letters, october 2, rais