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Letters to the Editor: smoking, war and the NZSO

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Letters to the Editor: smoking, war and the NZSO

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the NZSO's plans for the South, the decision to repeal smokefree laws, and the tangled web in Gaza.

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The big show, and all the fun of the fair

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The big show, and all the fun of the fair

Hooray for the Murchison A & P Show.

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Is New Zealand overborrowing?

Dealing with the industrial life of the dominion, the president of the New Zealand Employers’ Federation Mr T. Shailer Weston sounded a warning note yesterday.

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From crisis conservation to salvation: the takahē story

A takahe keeping watch on its eggs. PHOTO: DOC

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From crisis conservation to salvation: the takahē story

The weirdly wonderful takahē is a success story, Bill Lee writes.

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Govts come in colours everywhere

A section of Greenpeace's "Know Your Nitrate" map focusing on the Otago/Southland area. IMAGE: CC...

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Govts come in colours everywhere

In as sure a sign as any that a new government is taking over management of NZ Inc, yesterday the www.beehive.govt.nz website — where all governmental and Cabinet announcements are aggregated — was down for maintenance.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from 2023 Voyager Cartoonist of the Year, Shaun Yeo.

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Letters to Editor: Taieri Gorge Railway, councillors sticking to local issues

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Letters to Editor: Taieri Gorge Railway, councillors sticking to local issues

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including debate on the Taieri Gorge Railway, support for McDonald's in Wanaka and councillors sticking to local issues.

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Beauty queen crowned

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Beauty queen crowned

Miss Mavis Hillsdon-Hutton, 12 years old, was the winner of the Dunedin Tramways Band beauty carnival held at Dunedin recently. Otago Witness, 20.11.1923.

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Smokers to the rescue

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Smokers to the rescue

Almost before the ink was dry on the coalition agreement between National, Act New Zealand and New Zealand First, public health advocates were worried.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from 2023 Voyager Cartoonist of the Year, Shaun Yeo.

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Letters to the Editor: greed, ideology and extinction

A dredge works the Clutha River below Beaumont. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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Letters to the Editor: greed, ideology and extinction

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the well-trodden path of career politicians, the ecological vandalism of dredging, and a critically endangered bird.

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Gaza — all of us need to do some rethinking of the issues

A person holds a poster at a Tel Aviv rally to demand the immediate release of hostages held by...

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Gaza — all of us need to do some rethinking of the issues

A sense of moral entitlement has drowned out rationality or humanity in the Gaza conflict, Peter Matheson writes.

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Productivity essence of the Manuherikia debate

Falls Dam, at the head of the Manuherikia River. PHOTO: SHANNON THOMSON

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Productivity essence of the Manuherikia debate

The chairman of the Central Otago Environmental Society doth protest too much, Gerrard Eckhoff writes.

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Hillside rolls out new locos

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Hillside rolls out new locos

Oban and the foreshore of Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island. Otago Witness, 4.12.1923

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The ‘strong, stable’ label fable

NZ First leader Winston Peters, National's Christopher Luxon and Act's David Seymour in coalition...

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The ‘strong, stable’ label fable

Twas the month before Christmas, when all through the House, not a politician was stirring, not even a mouse.

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Letters to the Editor: cats, pests and student mess

The Queenstown Lakes District Council is expecting receive four new Special Housing Area...

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Letters to the Editor: cats, pests and student mess

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including why quality of life isn't tied to GDP growth, messy streets and unruly students, and when is a cat a pest?

Embrace the Taieri railway as part of who we are

Embrace the Taieri railway as part of who we are

No right-minded Dunedinite should propose the demise of the Taieri Gorge Railway, Duncan Connors writes.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from 2023 Voyager Cartoonist of the Year, Shaun Yeo.

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What about the workers?

The Milton pipe band, which played at the town show. Otago Witness, 27.11.1923

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What about the workers?

Sir, — I am pleased to see that some of our councillors have the courage to object to the granting of a bonus of £100 to the chief inspector, who recently had £100 added to his salary.

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Forming govt: ‘Complainers need to get a grip’

Act New Zealand leader David Seymour, National Party leader and Prime Minister-elect Christopher...

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Forming govt: ‘Complainers need to get a grip’

Earlier this week a reader emailed to ask what the enthusiastic proponents of electoral reform in the 1980s and ’90s made of the seemingly interminable delay in restoring politics as normal.

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