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Letters to the Editor: Mining, cycleways, Octagon

Leave the Octagon well enough alone. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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Letters to the Editor: Mining, cycleways, Octagon

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including mining land, calculating the benefit of cycleways and hands off the Octagon.

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Failing to clean up in NCEA level 1 hoovering

A vacuum cleaner on a short lead. PHOTO: ODT FILES

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Failing to clean up in NCEA level 1 hoovering

If I had passed more exams my life would be so much better.

Crouch, pause, touch ... but no need to engage just yet

Crouch, pause, touch ... but no need to engage just yet

There is no need to rush decisions on local government change, Alan Somerville writes.

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Letters to the Editor: doctor training, mining, Bowen Peak

Italian doctors and nurses practise treating severe breathing problems on a simulator of a 7-year...

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Letters to the Editor: doctor training, mining, Bowen Peak

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including doctor training, mining, Bowen Peak development and media.

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Potentate backs son

Sarkar Amman, known better as Sultan Jahan, was the ruling Nawab Begum of Bhopal (the ruler of...

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Potentate backs son

London, May 19: “I am glad now I abdicated,” said the Begum of Bhopal, who is sailing from London for India to-day.

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Back to the future with NZ First

NZ First leader Winston Peters speaks earlier this year. PHOTO: Peter Righteous [via ges]

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Back to the future with NZ First

On Sunday New Zealand First leader Winston Peters trekked to West Auckland — ‘‘the home of traditional hard-working Kiwi battlers’’ to announce two policies he hopes will resonate with that...

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Among the poets and poplars during a Central Otago autumn

Patearoa poplars about to lose their splendour as winter approaches. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

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Among the poets and poplars during a Central Otago autumn

Ah, what pleasures come with autumn! It’s a season for all men.

Mining proposal an Aesop moment

A drilling rig at the proposed Santana mine site. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

Mining proposal an Aesop moment

Outcry about the Santana gold mine proposal brings a famous fable to mind, Gerrard Eckhoff writes.

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Port Otago assets

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Port Otago assets

Where Port Otago will fit with any reorganisation of local government in the Otago region is already shaping up as a contentious issue.

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Fine run of fish

Officers of the Acclimatisation Society catch trout in the Water of Leith, in Dunedin, for...

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Fine run of fish

This year trapping and stripping proceeded without any serious interruption, and the results show a considerable improvement.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Letters to the Editor: resthomes, reforms and former mayors

Ministers Simon Watts, left, and Chris Bishop. PHOTO: RNZ

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Letters to the Editor: resthomes, reforms and former mayors

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including short staffing at resthomes, taking time for local reform, and the false statements of a former mayor.

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Forget being PM, Luxon is presidential material

Christopher Luxon, looking presidential. Photo: supplied

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Forget being PM, Luxon is presidential material

I think I may have just inadvertently become a republican.

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Majestic, mysterious monuments marvel

The magical Callanish standing stones. Photo: Getty Images

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Majestic, mysterious monuments marvel

It was a rather miserable afternoon when I first visited the Callanish standing stones on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.

The BIG war is not likely, but plenty of small wars are ongoing

An Israeli artillery unit fires towards Lebanon. PHOTO: REUTERS

The BIG war is not likely, but plenty of small wars are ongoing

A Politico opinion poll conducted in the four biggest Nato countries in February revealed almost identical popular expectations about the likelihood of a global war in the next five years.

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Auckland bus crash

Fatal bus accident at Epsom, Auckland: the bus struck a telegraph pole, killing bus passenger...

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Auckland bus crash

Auckland, May 17: A young woman was killed this morning when a fully-laden motor bus, which was travelling from Onehunga to Auckland, struck a telegraph pole in Manukau road at half-past eight.

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Letters to the Editor: council, debt and furniture

From grad to owing many grand. Photo: Gerard O'Brien

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Letters to the Editor: council, debt and furniture

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including Aaron Hawkins' failed by-election bid, the facts of intergenerational debt, and the tragedy of Dunedin Furniture.

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