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Letters: Auckland growth, property investors, vaccination pace and light rail 12 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 9 minutes to read Is central Auckland already too densely populated? Photo / Michael Craig NZ Herald Groan pains After being put up this week in an Auckland CBD accommodation unit, 14 floors up, looking out over similarly small units, with many even higher up, I can see why your editorial (NZ Herald, April 9) makes perfect sense. Indeed, we have a rather sparsely populated nation, where an absolutely unexpected newcomer, called Covid-19, has forced many of us to reinvent ours...

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...

Letters: Restrict growth, beach pollution, America's Cup vessels and Whangamatā teenagers 11 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 9 minutes to read Automation, technology, and expert skills are the keys to improving New Zealand lot, says one writer. Photo / 123rf Automation, technology, and expert skills are the keys to improving New Zealand lot, says one writer. Photo / 123rf NZ Herald Stable population It is time to re-think the notion that we can improve our well being as a nation by aggressively growing our population. The evidence is everywhere that this strategy is simply not working. If we wa...

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 minefiel...