LETTERS

Remarkable recycling

I would like to congratulate Charlotte Dodson on her recycling efforts as reported in The GB Weekly (GBW, 17/3).

She is setting a great example to others in both hairdressing and other businesses.

Well done and it is a challenge to others to follow suit.

Marie Kilgour

Climate Change: The First World must act.

Last week’s comments from Reg Turner (GBW, 24/3) cannot go unchallenged.

The consequences of climate change that we are experiencing now were largely caused by the First World up to the early 1980s when the worlds population was only 4.7 billion, a little more than half what it is today. Sadly, the earth has the ability to provide a 40-year delay on the effects of our abuse of our environment, otherwise we all should have seen the light by now and be living a carbon neutral lifestyle, instead of resisting the inevitable change.

Every individual in the first world has an environmental debt owing to the planet’s decendents and must take responsibility for the consequences of the unsustainable, consumption based lifestyles that we have all been living if they ever hope to leave their grandchildren with only a modicum of lifestyle that we still take for granted.

Instead of Reg championing fairness and transparency within our democratic system, maybe he could transfer his energies into being fair and transparent about paying back his environmental debt and become a shining example of a community leader in living a low carbon lifestyle.

Andy Clark

Not just an ordinary book.

Tony Gillan brings me The GB Weekly each week here at Ernest Rutherford Retirement Village and all us Tākaka people here love reading news of Golden Bay. Betty Jefferson takes it out to Olive Estate later.

It was such a thrill to find I had won the book on Ernest Rutherford.

It will be a great asset to our library here so thank you very much GB Weekly.

Kathy Baigent

Cobb Valley grazing

I, the undersigned, am in the process of writing to the Minister of Conservation for consent to graze cattle in the Cobb Valley over the summer months with conditions applied.

Brian Sixtus

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Police Report

• 24 March: A 38 year-old local male was charged with various firearms offences, Cultivation of Cannabis, Possession of utensils and Theft of a trailer following a search warrant. He has been bailed to appear in the NDC on 3/4/23.

• 24 March: A 43 year-old male was processed for drink driving after concerned members of the public alerted Police to his behaviour. He was suspended from driving for 28 days due to his level of intoxication. Police are awaiting a blood result before laying charges.

• 25 March: A 20 year-old tourist was warned for careless driving after flipping her car on Totaranui Road.

Kia ora Whānau.

• 22 March: A 20 year-old male from the deep south got himself arrested after wandering around our small town in a drug induced stupor for a few days. He was issued a formal warning for Unlawful Interference with a Motor Vehicle and Unlawfully in a building. His parents were phoned to come and pick him up and he was referred to the appropriate support agencies.

• 23 March: A 58 year-old local male was trespassed from an address in Tata after helping himself to use of a shed on the property.

• 25 March: A 44 year-old female from Palmerston North was arrested for breach of bail and Theft. She was also charged with a number of shoplifting offences that had followed her across from the North Island to paradise. She has been remanded in custody to appear in the NDC on the 3/4/23.

• 26 March: Busy day with several serious motorcycle crashes.

• Another Greenstone necklace handed in as found property. This one was found on Pōhara Beach. Numerous other items having been handed in and successfully reunited with their rightful owners. A big thanks to all those good people out there that do the right thing. Ma nga hua tu tangata – By our actions we are known

Tākaka Police.

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