The Weekend Sun
Friday 29 July 2016
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Getting down to business with trees big or small Trees big and small are no problem for the Goldstone Treeworx team, which offer their expert arboriculture services across the Bay of Plenty and will travel to any site. Owner Warren Goldstone says the team of professional arborists will tackle any job – whether topping, shaping, climbing, felling, crown thinning and lifting or chipping – they can do it all. Warren has been an arborist for 28 years. His son Mark has learned the trade from him and is now qualified. “Mark does all the climbing now, along with new employee Shane Howard,” says Warren, who also calls on
professional climbers Andrew Neverman and Matt Glenn when required. “We are also experienced in crane and cherry picker use for dismantling and removing large trees where necessary and we work with a small excavator when required.” “We always leave a tidy job,” says Warren. “I’m very fussy about cleaning up – so there is no mess unless the client request that they clean up themselves. “If they want the larger wood for firewood, we cut and leave it on-site or remove it if requested. “We have a nine-inch chipper to chip all branch material and will remove the chip or leave it on-site for your garden.” Warren’s friendly, professional team services residential homes, orchards and
rural properties from Waihi to Te Puke, Rotorua, and Matamata. The team is fully insured and complies with all health and safety requirements. Call Warren to visit you for a free no-obligation quote.
Mark and Warren Goldstone with truck and chipper.
Snapshot of Cleveland - and a look into US politics It’s an absolute privilege to be over in the United States watching the Republican convention. I’m here as part of the New Zealand delegation to the International Democratic Union, a collective of centre right parties from around the world. The CBD of Cleveland is in complete lockdown, streets closed, parameter fences around the blocks and around the venue, and thousands of law enforcement including hundreds of Secret Service officers – including on our bus – at all times. To get into the venue you walk through a corridor of Police and then through metal detectors. Inside there is as many Police again, every 20 metres or so, checking your credentials. Despite all this it all feels very safe and almost carnival-like when you walk around outside the venue, with the mix of huge numbers of Police, delegates and pockets of protestors, who have as many people rushing to capture any moments of conflict with their cellphone. Inside the convention is just as surreal – there’s 20,000 delegates and observers who really wear their political passions on their sleeves, literally! Everyone wearing republican
memorabilia, lots of Trump supporters. But there are still many delegates who prefer someone other than Trump – and they wear their loyalty for everyone to see. The most striking experience is how divided the Republican Party and the wider United States is. Within the Republican Party I’ve found it very hard to find any senior republican office-holder who supports Trump. But they have to, because he won the nomination. The party is very split between those who are fiscally conservative and socially tolerant – quite similar to NZ – and those who are very intolerant of globalisation and diversity, using language to describe their opposition that many of us in NZ would feel as extreme. But there is one unifying feeling among Republicans and that is their visceral dislike of Hillary. Most of the time in NZ, we might have disagreements on policy but we don’t take it out on the person. But state-side, it’s simply extraordinary – delegates chanting ‘lock her up’ and they genuinely mean it. I suspect I will see as much vitriol next week when I attend the Democratic Conference in Philadelphia. For the Democrats detest Trump as much as the Republicans hate Hillary.
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