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Letters to the editor: Boxing should be banned

28 Apr, 2021 09:00 PM2 minutes to read
A reader thinks boxing should be banned because of its potential to cause injury to the brain. Photo / File

A reader thinks boxing should be banned because of its potential to cause injury to the brain. Photo / File

Bay of Plenty Times

It grieves me that you accept and publish advertising for heavyweight boxing (page 22, April 27).

Boxing is the only ''sport" in which each contestant seeks to win by causing damage to his opponent's brain - for example, by knockout, which is a concussion.

In other contact sports, concussion is treated seriously and every effort is made to avoid it but not so in heavyweight boxing – it's the aim.

And this damage occurs to the most complex and incredible computer in all the world - the human brain.

Surely the day will come when this senseless sport will be banned in civilised nations. Let's make our country the first.

Don Campbell
Gate Pa

TECT beneficiaries should decide

Because of what TrustPower is proposing to do by looking at selling its retail business and the momentous effect it could have on TECT, the trustees have, in my view, an obligation to put every practicable option to the trust's beneficiaries - including the winding up of the trust.

And as it directly affects them, the beneficiaries should then be given the right to vote on those options, not left to the trustees to decide on their behalf.

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B Conning
Brookfield

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