A reader thinks packhouses should shorten their hours to attract more workers. Photo/file
My husband applied to work at a packhouse. He has a forklift licence and is 62 years young. The shifts are 12 hours, he was told. This is so unfair.
Surely a shorter shift of eight hours would attract more workers? Ones that are reliable and can get out of bed and turn up to do an honest day's work.
He is fit but has just got over radiation for prostate cancer. Stop saying Kiwis don't want to work. Adjust the hours.
Twelve hours is too much as we age. Very disappointed.
Anne O'Sullivan
Welcome Bay
Prince Charles has been approved as the successor to Queen Elizabeth.
When he attains that position, he also becomes the supreme governor of the Church of England.
The Church of England is also the mother church of the international Anglican Communion.
Princess Diana, speaking out about her ex-husband's indiscretion, confronted Charles about his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles.
He replied: "Well, I refuse to be the only Prince of Wales who never had a mistress."
She turned to the Queen for solace, however, was dissatisfied by her response.
"So I went to the top lady, sobbing, and I said 'What do I do? I'm coming to you, what do I do? And she said 'I don't know what you should do. Charles is hopeless'."
After the breakdown of her marriage; Diana famously said: "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."
So we have the soon to be supreme governor of the Church of England having committed a transgression of the seventh commandment: You shall not commit adultery.
What's worse is we are required to respect the title King, the positions Head of Commonwealth and supreme governor of Church of England.
Charles and Trump should get on famously if they ever meet.
Paul Evans-Mcleod
Hamilton
Trump's war began long before he came to power in late 2016. Since then, he's been resetting global relations and getting a pretty hard time of it.
No one seems to be able to agree with him, but do you think that worries him? Nope.
Most people say he is bonkers. That may well be. But I tell you he has more balls than the rest of the West's leadership combined. So why is he doing this and what is his end game?
His end game is simple - keep America in control of the planet. Sometimes we forget that to have these wonderfully extravagant lifestyles, we have to be in control of our own destiny.
Neither of the other two powers will have much tolerance for your liberties. I can't see Mr Putin or Mr Xi having much patience for this sort of stuff.
Perhaps we should pause a bit and appreciate what we've got before slagging off someone who will fight to the bitter end for your extensive privileges and liberties to continue. If we want to continue to be us, then we need to be prepared to fight for it.
It took 2000 years of blood, sweat and tears to get it this good. Don't knock it.
Graeme Martin
Tauranga
The vote against the Maori wards reflects the feelings of the majority of people.
Any other outcome would have been, in my view, a step closer to apartheid.
Let's be clear - Maori can do everything non-Maori can, but there is still too much credence given to Maori-only interests - by any other name, in my opinion, that is division and separatism.
This has got to stop and we must move forward as one people.
Don Finlayson
Tauranga
The fire in the Whakamārama area near Te Puna Stream has been contained.