Letters: Cost of royal visit will be going into economy

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. Photo / File

Why all the hand-wringing about the cost of the royal tour in New Zealand? Whatever each facet costs, the money remains in the country.

We are not paying the UK for the visit, the costs circulate within our country in the form of cash-money, jobs, etc. In addition the international publicity brings outside money in. Great.

Richard Kean
Ngongotaha

Value our teachers
Once again New Zealand is denying the requirements of its most important product, children.

Not content with allowing the price of houses to climb out of reach of most families, they are now snubbing a nose at the most important aspect of the children's lives - an education.

Teachers' pay is not something to be bandied about. Teachers have to put up with stress at work plus the mental and physical problems involved in bringing up their own families on extremely low wages. Not good enough.

After years of neglect under National, it is now time to do something about wages for teachers, for without these teachers we have no future as a country.

There are hardly any countries that are able to offer teaching staff for the simple reason of language.

Our main language is English, that makes a very small market in which to seek outside help, therefore we must take this shortage seriously.

Jim Adams
Rotorua