TXT the editor

■ How can we CBD businesses recover and survive from Covid when the council has increased the ticket quota for parking wardens.

■ ‘‘Inflation nobody’s friend.’’ Not true – Government GST the winner! PI

■ Cyclists (those who don’t own cars) don’t pay road and fuel tax. They also don’t kill 300+ people a year, maim hundreds more, and pump out greenhouse gases.

■ I don’t think Lydia Ko will get to read this congratulation notice on winning the top title where the game of golf for women is concerned. Neat one! Congratulations anyway to Lydia Ko, game well played. R

■ This bloody government needs to do something about all these people killing innocent people, getting like America every day.

■ If I had Adrian Orr’s pay packet or any politician’s, I wouldn’t have a cost of living crisis either.

■ Of course all 16-year-olds know everything about life. They always have since time immemorial. Just ask them!

■ Just wondering how long each day the prime minister spends thinking up which waffle and spin she can use to try talking her way out of the latest disaster that her Government has created.

■ PNCC wouldn’t have to remove trees on Maxwells Line if the overhead power lines were underground like the majority of the city. Actually, why are there some areas that still have overhead power lines? Did the council run out of money or were they just forgotten about? BND The lines are the responsibility of Powerco. We understand there is no plan to move lines underground but when lines are replaced, underground cables are considered – Editor