TXTtheeditor

■ Why do our farmers continue to sell good arable farmland to overseas buyers to plant trees? Surely even farmers must see this as short-sighted and not in the best interest of New Zealand. GT

■ Have said for 40 years that any government should be paying

nurses police teacher’s etc real money by that I mean 100k how many of us could or would do their jobs and work those hours? Get real all parties

■ Every building is ‘‘earthquake prone’’. PI

■ Are the Hutt Hospital condemned wards the same design as the two older blocks atMidCentral Health? Paulette

■ Might I suggest the need to check your usage of words that sound the same but have differentmeanings. Recent example; use of the incorrect form of curb/kerb ... one might need to curb one’s enthusiastic impulse ... and one steps off the kerb to cross the street!

■ Early this afternoon, approaching Shannon, I slowed for a 50kph temporary restriction. Imaginemy surprise when a white ute carrying a small quad on its flat deck passed at undiminished speed on my left, partly on the verge. Cretin. R1100

■ Why do TV advertisers continue to use children saying ‘‘oi’’ to a working adult?