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.
Letters: Ihumātao, Laura Fergusson Trust, savings and police chases
21 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
9 minutes to read
NZ Herald
Righting a wrong National and Act have strongly denounced the Government s purchase of the contested land at Ihumātao. They say that it will open up a can of worms for more Treaty claims on, private, land in the future.
This piece of land was confiscated by the British settler government from the original owners in 1863, despite that iwi not being in rebellion against the Crown at the time.
Mr Seymour and Mr Mitchell, would do well to ponder that fact, while pontificating about the need to respect the sanctity of private property.