To the point

WE are lucky still to have a newspaper in broadsheet format that can show us Stephen Jaquiery’s impressive photograph of the Stirling Falls

(ODT, 17.4.21). Well done!

Alan Roddick

Waverley

IF the Dunedin Rugby Club has to relocate due to coastal erosion at Middle Beach, there should be just enough space for a fullsized rugby field, allweather training ground and clubrooms at the old Carisbrook site.

Randal Scott

Caversham

OTAGO regional councillors are having difficulty understanding the ‘‘significant report’’ on Otago water quality trends

(ODT, 16.4.21). It is a feeling many of its ratepayers have regarding the council’s 10year plan.

Jim Moffat

Caversham

THE student nurses should be back doing their training in hospitals, not at the frontline of quarantine but where they can actually have real experience of nursing and, at the same time, fill the gaps in staffing. They’d learn more there than at lectures, and would be of more use in quarantine centres.

Kay Hannan

Oamaru

A TRANSFORMATIVE government Labour is not, ignoring calls for meaningful change to drug law reform by social organisations backed by public support.

Aaron Thompson

Dalmore

IT always pays to check your receipt when buying from supermarkets, as just lately I have been charged for items I didn’t even buy.

W. Turner

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