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Thu, Oct 23, 2025 4:04 AM

Opinion: Review will take New Zealand back to the leaderboard of education worldwide - MP

■ Following a huge effort on primary education, Minister for Education Erica Stanford has completed

Wed, Oct 22, 2025 4:03 AM

Letter: Thanks, and I will continue sharing ideas

Brendan Horan I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone who took the time to vote in t

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Wed, Oct 22, 2025 4:02 AM

Letter: Landlords treated same as other businesses

Keith Melville This is a response to John Capener’s  question wanting to know the fate of the $2.9

Wed, Oct 22, 2025 4:00 AM

Letter: A letter of gratitude

Dr Jessica Sneha Gray Thank you to the many, many of you who voted for me, who believed in me, and

Fri, Oct 17, 2025 4:06 AM

Letters: Peace deal reached

Dave Stewart My anticipation for a response from Keith Melville was rewarded this morning with his

Fri, Oct 17, 2025 4:05 AM

Letters: Create a Bay of Plenty that flourishes

Dr Jessica Sneha Gray There’s been a lot of talk – both online and off – about whether the “right”

Fri, Oct 17, 2025 4:04 AM

Letters: Tax break for 'property traders'

Lindsay Riddick Keith Melville’s letter of Beacon, October 15, Landlords still pay the price, quote

Fri, Oct 17, 2025 4:04 AM

Letter: Big rates reduction

Warwick Armstrong Thanks to the National government for bringing in a big change to building. Horra

Fri, Oct 17, 2025 4:03 AM

Letters: Interest is not given back to landlords

Diane Plant I am writing in response to Dave Stewart’s opinion piece, “Landlords are not like any o

Fri, Oct 17, 2025 4:02 AM

Letter: Don't play games with rules

John Capener Given that Mr Luca has conceded the Whakatāne Mayoral election result in favour of Nan

Fri, Oct 17, 2025 4:00 AM

Letter: Has Nandor a mandate for his agenda?

B Kawe It is interesting to read in Wednesday’s Beacon that the mayor-elect is pushing ahead with h

Thu, Oct 16, 2025 4:05 AM

Opinion: Lies killing the land of the free

Once a mighty totara is mortally wounded by chainsaws, it creaks and groans a bit before crashing do

Thu, Oct 16, 2025 4:00 AM

Opinion: Hundreds of pregnant Eastern Bay women forced to go to Tauranga to give birth

Ruth Hill, RNZ With no obstetricians left in the Eastern Bay of Plenty, hundreds of pregnant women

Wed, Oct 15, 2025 4:05 AM

Letter: Cracking the rhetoric

Anaseini Bryant Thank you, Suzanne Williams, for your thoughtful response, Incline to question auth

Wed, Oct 15, 2025 4:05 AM

Letters: Time for a new voting process

David Hick Surely our postal voting system for local body elections is past “best before” date. Wit

Wed, Oct 15, 2025 4:03 AM

Letter: Managing Whakatāne Hospital

Whakatāne District Grey Power Association Modern hospitals are enormously complex institutions. The

Wed, Oct 15, 2025 4:02 AM

Letter: A far-reaching message

Suzanne Williams Congratulations to Dr Mawera Karetai on her opinion piece of last Friday’s Beacon;

Wed, Oct 15, 2025 4:01 AM

Letters: Where did the money go?

John Capener Keith Melville, Beacon letter, made an eloquent plea on behalf of landlords and their

Wed, Oct 15, 2025 4:00 AM

Letters: Landlords still pay the price

Keith Melville No amount of anger directed at residential landlords will disguise the fact that the

Fri, Oct 10, 2025 3:55 PM

Letter: Economic growth requires thinking outside the box

Peter Minten What does the above picture show? We see a bunch of wind generation on the background.

Fri, Oct 10, 2025 4:02 AM

Letters: Win-win for ratepayers and taxpayers

Dave Stewart The review this week of building standards for earthquake proofing highlights to me th

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The Beacon has been delivering news to the Eastern Bay since 1939 and is the leading source of community news in the region. The paper was founded by Leicester Spring and is still owned by the Spring family. Leicester’s son John Spring is the managing director.

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