Tony Watkins

For more than ten years, since the last resource consents expired, the Council has been illegally dumping toxic stormwater into the Tamaki Estuary.

Add value to ten-acre sprawl

The assumption that the Unitary Plan will lead to intensification is unfortunately an untested theory.

The old AHB was as tough as a tug but as elegant as a Logan.

Death knell, not vision

Giving guns to the police will do nothing to overcome violence. Concentrating power is the cause of our problems, not the solution.

Opinion writer Bryan Gould was in one sense incomplete in his comment on the government’s “mania for putting a price on everything”. Sometimes very real costs are simply left out.

Why solve problems when you can avoid them?

David Sale was very wide of the mark when he triumphantly declared “that is a separate issue”. (Tui Motu, August 2011)

The story of the businessman who had to pay $700 to get his own furniture back after it had been looted from his premises within the Christchurch red-zone cordon, with Civil Defence meanwhile refusing to allow him access, does at least hint at a solution.

Chris Barton is to be congratulated on his superb feature in the Weekend Herald on Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia. There is a lot more to architecture than a few glossy photographs and mediocre text, marketing the latest boring “award winning architecture”.

The best time to deal with a disaster is before it happens. It is also the easiest and the least expensive.

It was sad to realise that anyone should not know that karaka berries are poisonous. (East and Bays Courier, 1 April 2009) 

I apologise.

My clothing was torn from my body, The fangs of the dogs sank so deeply into my flesh that they punctured right through to the bone. I was covered in blood.

The wounds of course turned septic and months later suppurating puss was still oozing from my shoulder.

I had to replace everything I was wearing except my shoes.

However in saying that I had been “mauled” I intended to be descriptive rather than emotive.

I unreservedly withdraw the word “mauled” and I would be delighted to use in the future any more appropriate term Monica Cookson, East and Bays Courier May 21 can suggest. 

I once saw a dog “attack” (my term) or “begin playing with” (the dog owner’s term) a girl who was swimming.