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Wednesday May 24, 2017
readers have their say... Find out the WORD on the Street.
Q: When is the General Election and will you vote?
Ray Su’a, Wainuiomata
Steve Wheoki, Wainuiomata
Tania Ngatuere, Wainuiomata
Chris Bishop, Lower Hutt
John Milovale, Wainuiomata
“It’s in November – Yeah -always Labour.”
“Dunno really – but I`d vote Labour.”
“Oh, October, I guess. Yes, Labour.”
“September 23, voting National.”
“Don’t know - is it in 2024? Will vote Labour.”
Tusi Toato, Wainuiomata “ I don’t know, next year I think. I`ll vote Labour.”
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Lockyer prank suggestion Dear Ed, Here’s how Joyce Lockyer can play a skydiving prank on her brother: Joyce Lockyer can tell her brother: “We are going to a surprise destination” then drive to a Taupo motel the day before a skydiving session after buying a skydiving ticket for her brother from Taupo
skydiving centre. On the morning of the skydiving jump, before the limousine arrives at the motel, Joyce Lockyer can put a blindfold on her brother’s face then when the limousine arrives to take Joyce Lockyer’s brother to the skydiving centre Joyce will help her blindfolded brother
Pollution will get us Dear Ed, Students at schools have assignments about pollution. Children are trying to make a vocal protest, but big companies responsible don’t want to listen to children. So, these children wait a few years until they get old enough and join Greenpeace. Well, look at our fight we had with whale hunters in the Southern oceans with Japan. Now there’s the other threat - oil companies with sonic blasts affecting marine life. Now comes rubbish that human pigs cause by throwing plastic stuff into the
into the limousine then when he arrives at the skydiving centre the blindfold will remain in place till he reaches 15, 000ft. The door will then open for the skydiver to jump out of the plane. The instructor can them finally take the blindfold off Joyce’s brother’s face just before jumping out of
the plane! Joyce can film her brother skydiving with his skydiving instructor and that should be a funny prank that Joyce Lockyer has given her brother for a meteorite prank in her backyard! Yours sincerely Sonali Bhattacharjee
At odds over consultation
sea. We had pollution in the Waiwhetu stream when Excide and Feltex were fined for putting their waste into that stream. It used to stink something real bad in the early days. Have you noticed that the Willows near Silvestream tip are a nasty yellow colour and the others green long before Autumn? I noticed that four years ago the Willows near the output pipe from the tip were yellow and all the others were green. No wonder the stream is polluted. Man causes pollution with their lack of knowledge and greed along
with stupidity included. The children of today are trying to get into the heads of these bone-headed companies responsible for dumping waste to stop. Over in the states some contractors were dumping waste into streams to save money taking it to the proper places. I heard someone say ‘why didn’t their parents drown them at birth?” Well, that wasn’t a very nice thing to say. Folks if it’s not nuclear war that ends us it will be pollution - water pollution, land pollution - air pollution. Peter Wells (abridged) Lower Hutt
Dear Ed, I am at odds with the way Hutt City Council has consulted over its disability strategy as it is not taking a human rights approach. Council order papers only show two articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The way that Hutt City Council should have started consulting is by explaining what the convention is
about and also about the New Zealand Disability Strategy (NZDS). Council started with the action plan for its accessibility and inclusion Strategy and did not clearly explain strategic outcomes of the NZDS. I showed Mayor Wallace a document that proves Council officers and members of the project team knew about the NZDS draft and didn’t include it in their strategy. Mike Grigg (abridged)
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Building projects win awards Hutt City Council building projects won five prestigious awards in five days for commercial and architecture projects. Naylor Love received a gold award at the New Zealand Commercial Projects Award ceremony for the Council’s revamped and earthquake-strengthened administration building. Hawkins Group received a silver award for its work on the Walter Nash Centre in Taita, Lower Hutt. Five days later the Wellington Archi-
tecture Awards ceremony, Architecture + scooped up three top awards for their work on the administration building in the heritage, interior architecture and public architecture categories. Deputy Mayor David Bassett said it was a wonderful result and it complemented Lower Hutt’s wider rejuvenation strategy. “It’s fantastic to receive public and professional confirmation Lower Hutt has public buildings we can all be proud of.”