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■ Why do we allow valuable, productive farms to be sold and planted in pines? Good use of difficult, non viable land. Better yet, plant in native trees.

■ PNCC asleep at the wheel again. Who could have predicted that a one in one month rainfall would

cause stormwater drains to be blocked in some areas by ungathered leaves?

■ Well just because the Prime Minister couldn’t do her job and speak to the protesters she has cost the country millions. I myself was getting very frustrated with the govt. AL

■ Life sentence for brutal murder: 13 years & 9 months. Disgusting.

■ Just viewed on TV, pig farmer

who may have to kill pigs as cannot get them processed. Come on, food, food. What’s happening Jacinda? Get all back to work & pork industry board, start earning your fees.

■ Green party doco funded by the taxpayers. No way. M

■ Re ‘‘Fishing crew caught with huge illegal haul of fish’’ (Wed p9 side bar), could your reporter please redo the calculation,

remembering that the legal limit is 7 per day per person, so 35 per day total for the five fishermen caught. Anne The reference to 45 times the limit was wrong. It was 9.5 times the limit for a crew of five fishers – Editor

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