Mãori co-governance column spot on

LETTERS

An excellent article from Heather du Plessis-Allan (“No Jacinda, critics aren’t racist”, HoS, July 4). She hits the nail right on the head when she says: “This stuff is almost certainly going to anger people. It’s hardly going to lead to a more cohesive society.” Altogether a masterpiece of understatement.

Hugh Perrett, Remuera

Discipline at the front

Judith Collins bemoans the illdiscipline of her caucus. I remind her that good discipline will inevitably follow a good leader — a leader who hasn’t been so central to so many bitter and recent leadership battles.

Larry Mitchell, Rothesay Bay

Institutions homing in

Will New Zealand follow the recent American trend on single-family homes? Major financial institutions are buying up single-family homes at an increasing rate, paying as much as $100,000 above asking price, (thus shutting out private buyers) and then putting the houses on the rental market. Already they reputedly own 2 per cent of that housing estate. There are also reports of such institutions making bulk buys of entire new-build developments such as cul-de-sacs immediately that the developer has completed the houses.

G.N. Kendall, Rothesay Bay

Plastic policy ridiculous

This world we inhabit is to my mind becoming “curioser and curioser”. Take shopping. I buy a bulky pair of pyjamas and two bulkier bath towels which, after payment, are presented to me without packaging of any sort. Inconvenient to say the least. Seems I should provide my own bag. Groceries: We are denied plastic bags, that is understandable, we use our own shopping bags, but then the items we buy are tightly encased in plastic. Most of the material from grocery shopping that I discard is plastic — lots of it, and it’s not my fault. This is quite ridiculous. A N Christie, Rotorua

Soccer rules the dives

There are more dives at the soccer than from the springboard.

Bruce Tubb, Belmont