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The Weekend Sun
Buy NZ on wrong track
Road Code should be free In an article on page 3 of Friday 15 Weekend Sun, all Tauranga drivers are labelled as ‘ignorant’ of the rules of the road by both the Tauranga Road Safety Coordinator (who actually employs her?) and the Acting Senior Sergeant in charge of the Western BOP road policing. They say that ‘lots of people haven’t looked at the road code since they sat their license.’ How would they know that? If it were true, then there may be a very good reason for it – of which the
officials themselves may be ignorant. It currently costs around $25 to buy a copy of the Road Code. Why would drivers pay that for something they have already paid the Government to produce, in terms of income tax, petrol excise duty and GST? And pay $25 again and again every time the Code becomes out of date? If the authorities really want to improve road safety, they could start by making the Road Code available for free. J Dent, Tauranga.
Hiding behind charade of poverty Rod Petricevic the boss of the failed Bridgecorp Finance Company, claims he will not get a fair trial because he can’t afford a lawyer, as he has no job or money. After his unsuccessful submission to have the charges dropped, he made another application for legal aid. His previous application for legal aid was rejected on the grounds that he has access to the family trust, which has substantial assets and reported to be in the millions. Yet he still expects the state to fund his defence. After fleecing 14,500 investors, Mr Petricevic is trying to fleece the rest of us. This man needs to consider his
options, like, sell some of the assets in the family trust, downsize or sell the family home, take out a mortgage or a loan, have a garage sale, or even get a job. He also should stop hiding behind the charade of being poverty stricken and destitute, while continuing to live the life of Riley, and the loss of $459 million of investor’s money had nothing to do with him. Without doubt some of the assets, which are conveniently stashed in the R M Petricevic Family Trust would have been derived from his accused criminal activities. Brian Porter, Welcome Bay.
More important issues than boobs Back in the day when the waters were sweet in Ngaruawahia and Nambasa was all about love peace and bare breasts, we wouldn’t have given boobs on bikes a mention, unlike the 50 letters and comments over the past week in local rags. On any given sunny day at the Mount main beach in the seventies there were more fun bags wobbling up and down
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the sand dunes than a herd of milk laden Friesians. Topless was the togs of choice and bikinis were sold as one pieces. So why is everyone getting their tits in a tangle about a few well hung Harleys? Surely there are far more important issues that warrant pen to paper than mammaries on motorbikes. T. Kapai, Te Puna.
Submit on signage I encourage everyone to make a submission on the proposed Local Elections “signs” policy and submissions close on the 5 August 2011. As there is no requirement to pay a permit cost, to be able to put up Local Body election signs, the entire cost of monitoring and policing the policy is therefore borne by ratepayers. If a permit fee was required this would at least cover, in part, the cost of Council monitoring staff ’s time and associated travel costs in answering the many residents complaints regarding these signs but as no fee is payable the total cost is met by ratepayers through their rates. As the current Council is stating that they have a strong desire to reduce costs incurred by ratepayers it seems illogical that they would vote any other way other than to agree to adopt the new elections signs policy and that is that they, in future, be banned on public property. Mike Baker, Bethlehem.
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Voter seeking common sense I have had the following quotation for some time and in my 80 plus years have found it true in quite a number of occasions even in my own family: Common Sense: “It is a thousand times better to have plain Common Sense than to have a Degree in a chosen career without Common Sense.” But how do we know who has Common Sense when we go to vote? ME Alexander, Greerton.
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Transaction tax for disasters A couple of weeks ago I suggested the idea of a one percent financial transaction tax for future disasters. Perhaps we could start this by first applying it to rates, where any GST is a tax on a tax. So if your half yearly rates bill was say, $1,000, instead of the $150 extra GST, the transaction tax would only be $10? I doubt ratepayers would be unhappy with the above (although I’ll bet the politicians would protest) and countrywide, it would probably surprise people just how much might be collected. Of course there will be opposition, even though it would be for an ultimate good cause. And guess who it will come from? The people who couldn’t claim it back! R McGuinness, Tauranga.
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The X240, The Great 4WD of China and the V240 Dual Cab, The Great Ute of China, just got Greater. They’ve always been packed with features but now we’ve given them both a new streamlined front and added steering wheel controls. The X240 4WDAnd the X240 has Bluetooth and a Reversing Camera. At these great value prices,
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Why should we, ordinary New Zealand Citizens, be taking serious notice of the long term call to buy New Zealand made, when NZ Rail totally rejects this and purchases Chinese rolling stock and so destroys our own railway workshops and terminates the employment of a significant number of skilled New Zealanders? Barry Walker, Mt Maunganui.
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