TXT the editor

❚ No, Malcolm Hopwood got his review of the Peter Plumley Walker story all wrong. It didn’t miss the mark at all. Stop being a fuddy-duddy with your tawdry comments.

❚ Don’t blame the bridge or roads, blame the drivers.

❚ Watching the Teina Pora story on Sunday Theatre confirmed to me the unacceptable incompetence by the New Zealand Police in a very obvious flawed investigation. This makes me think twice again about other cases such as Mark Lundy and Scott Watson and I welcome the proposal to create a Criminal Cases Review Commission.

❚ Surely Chris Teo-sherrell can’t be

serious? After his track record? I think Grant Seton deserves a go.

❚ Oh please, no more sport on telly. Canoe polo, what the heck? Next week people will be demanding to watch the Tiddlywinks games or Bingo at the local old-folks hall.

❚ I’m happy, Joel Maxwell, that you enjoy your te reo Ma¯ori. But why the need to refer to non-ma¯ori as te reo Pa¯keha¯? Generally, it’s called English.

It’s been spoken in New Zealand and around the world for centuries. Why make something racist out of it? MA ❚ I found reading Jane Bowron’s article in Monday’s paper interesting re Trump’s rudeness in wearing his hat when being interviewed. Completely agree, but maybe the glue for his toupee didn’t stick on those days?

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