Letters to the editor: Time to dole out some tough love

A reader thinks people on the benefit should be doing jobs that migrants would normally do. Photo / File

It wasn't all that many years ago when everybody thought mechanisation was going to compete with our labour force and reduce the need for workers, and the unions were preparing for a fight.

Who in their wildest dreams would have thought the biggest threat came from the mentality of people who don't want to work?

It's spreading like a cancer.

So much so, that we have to import people to work even though we have a workforce here sitting on the dole.

It's about time this Government dealt out some tough love.

Gavin Muir
Springfield

Time for boxing ban?

It grieves me that you accept and publish advertising for heavyweight boxing (page 21, 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 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
Tauranga

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