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Letters to the Editor: retirement, Māori language and Gaza

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Letters to the Editor: retirement, Māori language and Gaza

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including retirement villages or Ponzi schemes, phonics and learning to read, and Israelis who resist the killing in Gaza.

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Views of Africa and the cartographic truth

Where you have been living this whole time, the equal areas map. Photo: supplied

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Views of Africa and the cartographic truth

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a "Change the Map" campaign in April.

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First Church: a ‘noble heritage’

A scale model in cork of First Church, Dunedin intended for the New Zealand and South Seas...

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First Church: a ‘noble heritage’

First Church of Otago has reached almost a venerable age as far as this young country is concerned, and it has grown rich in the traditions of this province.

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Hail the great splinter makers, wringing excitement from risk

Coastguard New Zealand rescues more than 6000 people a year who get into trouble on the water. ...

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Hail the great splinter makers, wringing excitement from risk

Here in Lyttelton we have a fine new Coastguard building.

Bombing is all just a little bit of history repeating

Post-shelling devastation in 1930s Palestine. Photo: supplied

Bombing is all just a little bit of history repeating

Family history tells Glen Morgan a lot about today.

When words fade: what dementia might teach us about God

When words fade: what dementia might teach us about God

The Bible offers comfort and remembrance for those affected by dementia, Graham Redding writes.

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A spin around the House

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A spin around the House

The marine buffer which New Zealand used to enjoy from the rest of the world and the actions of its nastiest people has been narrowing in recent decades.

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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: soil, te reo Māori and teachers' pay

Teachers and MPs compared. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

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Letters to the Editor: soil, te reo Māori and teachers' pay

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including lead in residential soils, being threatened by te reo, and the stark difference in pay between MPs and teachers.

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Germany makes down payment

A Junker plane arrives at Croydon, London, laden with money to pay Germany’s war reparations. —...

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Germany makes down payment

London, August 25: The arrival at Croydon to-day of the Junker Company’s triple-engined all-metal monoplane was witnessed by many prominent aviation people.

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Banking review fine, as far as it goes

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Banking review fine, as far as it goes

Almost as long as there have been banks there have been people moaning about banks.

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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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At this time there’s nothing at all to like about ‘like’, eh?

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At this time there’s nothing at all to like about ‘like’, eh?

"EH", long regarded as an oddity of New Zealand English, came to mind when I saw a recent ad for a Dunedin seaside restaurant which went something like, "Good food with an ocean view, Ay?"

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Letters to the Editor: Rates, solar site and Stewart Is

A drone shot of the proposed solar farm site on Ranfurly-Naseby Road. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

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Letters to the Editor: Rates, solar site and Stewart Is

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including call for higher rates, solar site plan and Stewart Island is a special place.

There's gonna be a storm quite soon as election due

The Dunedin City Council at work. PHOTO: DCC

There's gonna be a storm quite soon as election due

Local body elections are a flawed process, Gerrard Eckhoff writes.

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Rail services sped up

The express leaves Dunedin Railway Station for Christchurch. — Otago Witness, 21.7.1925

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Rail services sped up

The Christchurch-Invercargill expresses, Christchurch-Dunedin, and Dunedin-Invercargill mail trains have been accelerated, the time of the journey being reduced in the case of the longer-distance...

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Sunday parking changes

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Sunday parking changes

There is an understandable level of grumpiness among some ratepayers over the plans to introduce Sunday parking fees in some inner-city streets.

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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: Gaza, health and privacy

Environment Southland chairman Nicol Horrell. Photo: supplied

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Letters to the Editor: Gaza, health and privacy

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the lies around starvation in Gaza, funding the public health system, and a lumpen invasion of privacy.

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Trump melodrama: might some relief be close?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and United States President Donald Trump. PHOTO: GETTY...

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Trump melodrama: might some relief be close?

If you are getting tired of the on-again-off-again Ukraine "peace deal" that has been hogging the headlines for the past few months, relief is at hand.

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