Coronation St
Re Coronation St time change: As Mark Twain once correctly observed, TVNZ's Jeff Latch, is using "Lies, damned lies, and statistics", because 525,000 on average watch every episode of Coro St.
It is the number one watched programme on all New Zealand television most weeks, almost always ahead of horribly padded TV One News.
Jeff Latch is only quoting 158,200, being only the 25 to 54 age group. We are looking like being a soon to be a null-TVNZ household.
David Thew, Auckland
One law for all
It's widely trumpeted by some that NZ is one country and that there is one law for everyone.
Is that right? Because I read where a tangata whenua, 50-year-old fraudster, who went into hiding for two years, failed to appear in court three times (with warrants being issued for his arrest) ripped off over $100,000 from the NZ taxpayer Ministry of Social Development and got sentenced (slapped over the wrist with a wet bus ticket) to 17 months holiday in prison (no doubt locally, so that his whanau can make regular visits) along with six months early supervised parole, and better still he's not ordered to pay any of the money back he stole in reparation.
Yet, the same judge, same day, same court, sentences a 40-year-old solo mother (who "fully cooperated" with the authorities) who ripped off $69,000 from the Ministry of Social Development to 300 hours Community Work, plus 10 months home detention and he orders her to pay back the $69,000.
One law for all - yeah right! But then again they say the law is an ass.
David Bosley, Napier
