Texts To The Editor: 14/09/11

Rugby World Cup

*   Clean up for the cup. It's great NZ wants to look our best for the visitors heading here. What a shame Napier can't manage to clean the waterway on Georges Drive. It's an eyesore of pollution and rubbish right where everyone will be parking. Cleaning it would make it beautiful not only for the visitors but also for the community to enjoy. It's long overdue! MO

*   World Cup accomodation: Are all these massive increases in accomodation prices by hotels private houses etc just making NZ look bad and greedy also hurting future events that NZ might attempt to host? Yes NZ needs every cent it can get but this kind of profit does not benefit NZ and only reduces the extra spending that might have been made that does benefit the NZ economy ? MP I agree with LS. The haka is overused, overrated, pathetic and embarrasing. Get rid of it or use it once, ie if ABs win World Cup or for Olypmic gold medals.

*   Hear, hear David Smith, Zac has a deserved place in the ABs, one average performance doesn't deserve such bad reviews. Where is the support for this young star? Lynda

Anti-abortionists

Anti abortionists need to get a life or even a job and spare a thought for the women who for whatever reason make a heart-wrenching decision to terminate. Give them a break.

*   To the person who texted supporting these abortion protesters: Get real, your comments come from the dark ages. What about the women who were raped or girls that get molested by their fathers or stepfathers and end up pregnant? Freedom of choice without a band of placard holding witchhunters at the gates.

*   Re abortion protesters txt on Saturday Sept 3: People have abortions for many reasons. Would you rather them have the child and abuse it or not be able to it give it the life it needs? Adoption is a better idea but abortion is a personal choice so protesters need to get off their high horse and get a real job instead of giving the evil eye to everyone leaving the hospital.

*   I have given a child up for adoption and had a termination, and live with a clear concience. You protesters should find something more constructive to do.

Other thoughts

*   Boo hoo to the end of Warren's bakery's delicious custard squares What a pity!

*   Get real Paddy and Glynis. A milliscreen doesnt TREAT sewage, it only screens out the big stuff which gets ground up so you don't see the polution in large lumps. Our Bay is totaly polluted and may never recover. Bazza

*   Is there any chance of finding out the overall costs of the Urewera police raids to the taxpayer. JB

*   I wish Taradale retailers had kicked up same amount of fuss about the pay and display as they are about the cell phone tower. It may have made some difference. Pahoe

*   Nothing wrong with Wairoa if you wear the right colours.

*   Congratulations. A front page with no crime on it.

*   To the racist Somali who called our police Nazis. Please leave our wonderful country and go back to your own home where you are obviously used to a democratic society that affords its citizens a life superior to what can be expected New Zealand. L Weller

*   Re erratic Happy Feet. I wonder if a GPS position transmitter's RF emissions interfere with a penguin's natural navigation system. I wonder if RF emissions can be "homed" on by other sea dwellers, eg hungry Orca. I wonder if anyone checked BEFORE this expensive little electronics adorned celebrity was forced to "walk the plank". DBS

*   Trucks travel too fast and too close but they seem to be immune from radar.

*   Disgusting thieves, stealing bags left for cancer collection. If John Key can admit leading a "cash strapped govt" then why is he and his cronies so typically, financially darn well off?

*   Re the 11th grade Marist team that won all their games this season. Why were there 5 boys in the team who are going to high school next year? Should have been in 12th grade.

*   Have the ideal solution to narrow bridges. Just paint green lines on the road. Works everywhere else.

*   That's great news on the front page for once, "Bash victim regains wings".

*   Hastings New World supermarket, love your Father Christmas/ All Black. Brilliant, made my day.

*   When will people get it into their heads that the hospital grounds are meant to be smoke-free. It's disgusting walking through clouds of poisonous stinking smoke to visit loved ones. JHW

*   Brilliant idea from Pete Redding, NAPIER "in lights" on top of Napier Hill, what an amazing way to advertise our beautiful city.