To the point

JAMES Roberts (letters, 3.4.19) asks, ‘‘Who gets to decide what is art in a society of free expression?’’ That’s easy. Whoever owns the property where the graffiti/art/vandalism was done.

Allan Gardyne

Cromwell

HAVING lived my whole life in this wonderful city, I hope that the ‘‘silent majority’’ agree with Michael Sidey (letters, 10.4.19) and Ian Taylor. I do, unreservedly.

Murray Davidson

Waverley

HATS off to the ODT for a very timely , considered and wellinformed editorial, ‘‘Wanaka’s pause for thought’’ (11.4.19). Let’s hope it is widely read and its observations well digested.

Roger Gardiner

Wanaka

ISRAEL Folau appears to pay a lot of attention to his physical appearance, judging by the amount of different haircuts he seems to sport. Perhaps that’s why he chose to omit vanity from his list of sins.

Mark Wallace

Dunedin

SO the atrocity in Christchurch has made authorities nervous about security at Anzac Day services.

Now we have to start living in fear, do we?

B. Thompson

Weston

A NEW name for the red and blacks rugger team? How about the Canterbury Defenders?

W. Turner

Dunedin

IT has become clearly evident recently that Bailey bridges are of much more benefit to the country than Simon Bridges.

E. Ross

Musselburgh

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