You're a prick. For six months you've owned us. You've smashed us as one bad piece of medical diagnosis was delivered after the other.

Since the boardwalk was put in place there have been five Mangonui festivals, with thousands of people using the boardwalk, many of them partly inebriated, yet nobody has needed a fence to save them.

HOW comforting it is to know that crime rates have fallen in this country to levels not seen for decades. And they will no doubt continue to fall.

We had hoped to have the opportunity to pay tribute to Tom (Young) at the time of his funeral service - this letter is offered in lieu of that eulogy.

SOME judges seem to have lost sight of the fact that it is their job to determine guilt or innocence, and then to apply the relevant law.

"Look out hoons," said the message in the 'In Brief' column on the front page of last Thursday's Age, so they did.

My apologies for the weather yesterday, something beyond my control. I have organised the zone swimming event for the past 18 years, without the weather being too unkind.

Having spent a fairly long time at Ahipara, beside the main road along the foreshore recently, I would like to mention a few observations.

The letter signed by someone calling themselves Harry Stottle (March 3) alleges that "a van-load of inebriated 'voters'" was brought to the WHST Kaeo election to swell the votes placed for Maggie Rudolph, standing against Brendan Tuohy last May.

IT'S NOT TRUE that only the good die young, but it is true that Martin Crowe had so much more to give his country when he lost his battle with cancer last week at the age of 53.

In reference to the article 'New era for Ahipara Health' (February 18), there are several points that require clarification, and may be of interest to the wider community.

As the chief executive of Northland DHB, I wish to respond to recent letters alleging board member conflicts of interest.

IT'S BEEN a while since we heard of the 'Look Up Te Hiku' movement. Flags were erected, briefly, on the tallest of poles, exhorting us to look up physically as well as metaphorically...

In the early 60s Lake Ngatu, also known as Russell Lake, was pristine, and all Paparore School swam daily in summer.

In 2003 Helen Clark and Margaret Wilson forced through the abolition of appeals to the Privy Council. This was despite opposition from a majority of New Zealanders. Calls for a referendum fell on deaf ears. The government got its way by steadfastly ignori

THE United States' convoluted electoral process doesn't have much in common with ours, which is a good thing. But Democrat presidential contender Bernie Sanders struck a familiar note when he announced that he was offering free health care and education..

WINSTON PETERS was fuming last week after the Ministry of Education, or even the ministers who lead it according to his publicly-expressed suspicions, prevented him from boarding a Mangakahia Area School bus.

You're sitting happily in your Lay-Z-Boy watching your favourite show on telly. You hear a loud yelp! and out of the corner of your eye you catch your child pulling the dog's tail and/or grabbing a handful of the cat's fur.

Government wants settlement and to pay out for past wrongs to Ngapuhi. Money can never compensate for their losses, but it's the best that can be done.

THERE is no questioning Selwyn Clarke's belief that he did not commit an offence when he took part in the occupation of Kaitaia airport last year. Like the others who were arrested and charged with trespass, he believes he had every legal right to be the

I refer to your recent article regarding the fate of Mr Selwyn Clarke following his involvement in the protests around Kaitaia airport.

THE sense of entitlement that pervades our society is one of the major hindrances to achieving the prosperity to which we all aspire.

A letter to St Mary's Pukenui steering committee and Pukenui community representatives.

At home, on our own property, we have very strict legislation/regulation governing our use with quad bikes. These include:

THE process adopted by the Anglican Church in Kaitaia to sell St Mary's at Pukenui is nothing short of shameful.

The observations made in your editorial in today's Age (Fun and fatalities, January 12) very definitely mirror those of most law-abiding residents of and visitors to Ahipara.

I am shocked to read of Dover and his cohorts' eagerness to spend (probably) tens of thousands of our dollars on blowing up the basalt structure below the water at Waipapa Landing (Too many boats on the roads, December 17).