Texts To The Editor: 24/11/11

*   All four adults in the house that little 'J.J' got murdered in should be arrested and imprisoned until someone confesses to his murder!

*   So agree with TV3's doco on child poverty, November 22. We do need a Minister for Children. Scrap Minister of Immigration and make a Ministry of Children. It's time we Kiwis looked after our own.

*   Child poverty in NZ is a disgrace conveniently swept under the political carpet.

*   Shame on orchards on York Rd. My daughter has been caught in nasty spray drift a number of times biking to school. I've worked on a orchard for years and we never spray roadside rows at peak use times, get it right! RA.

*   Politicians shoud be tranparent but few of them are.

*   Why does HDC have to always clean other people's footpath vegetation? Don't be lazy muppets, do your own gardens.

*   Yep - agree 100 per cent with Ellen, not good look for Hastings with Mobsters hanging round! We need Michael Laws as mayor, he'd sort it!

*   The Legalise Cannabis Party. Yeh, that's just what this country needs - another bunch of stoners on the roads. What bloody next?

*   You can't do business over a text. And if you can't afford a phone call, you can't afford to pay for the job.

*   Re big rig on parade: Should have thought about the big rigs before he bought his business. They were there before he was. Pahoe