NZ Post actively seeking a partner

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However NZ Post is “actively looking” for another business partner within Khandallah, the head of retail operations

Andrew McKenzie says.

“We have been in contact with a number of businesses within the local community but as yet we can’t confirm a location for another postal agency,” he says.

For impacted customers, NZ Post has two postal agencies within 3.5km of the existing store – the Johnsonville Post Shop and the Ngaio Post Centre.

For Khandallah PO Box holders, mail will be moved to the Johnsonville Post Shop from 1 May.

The Johnsonville Post Shop is located at 28 Johnsonville Road (3.5km from the existing Khandallah agency) and is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm, offering postal, courier and bill payment services.

The Ngaio Post Centre is located at 2 Crofton Road (2.1km from the Khandallah agency) and is open Monday to Sunday from 8am to 7pm, offering postal and courier services.

Mr Boyle and his assistant Jennie Smith “have been around for a long, long time,” he says.

“But now it’s time for me to retire.”

He has really enjoyed his 22 years in the Khandallah village, and has many fond memories of his customers – especially “the customers’ smiley faces and their care.

“The people who come into the shops, the customers, are everything to a shop.”

He has also valued being part of the Khandallah retail community.

“This is a very special suburb. I have been very lucky to have my shop here,” he says.

Mr Boyle plans to undertake “lots of international travel” during his retirement.

“I’ve never been to Africa, so that will be up near the top.”

Another destination near the top of his list will be the eastern seaboard of the United States.

“I’ve always loved international travel. I’ve done a lot of it.

“I have a house that needs painting and that will be done too,” he says.

Ever since the “closing down” signs went up at Khandallah Books and Post Shop

“I have witnessed the most extraordinary grief, I guess it is,” local resident John Stokes says.

“People are bringing in gifts and farewell cards for Allen and Jenny, his assistant.” changes. runoff and other material ending up in our harbours, especially the Porirua harbour in the case of development north of Johnsonville and Newlands. The Wellington City Council are concerned that the existing infrastructure cannot handle the pressure it comes under when new housing areas are developed. Existing infrastructure is aging and needs upgrading across our city, as evidenced by recent pipe failures. An advantage of intensification of existing areas means more people, therefore more ratepayers to pay for those upgrades.

The road toll of only one over the weekend was hopefully a sign that the ‘devil may care’ attitude towards driving that some have adopted since COVID may be diminishing.

I recently hosted a meeting which included local property developers and representatives from the City and Regional Councils. The background for the meeting was the need to ensure all people involved in providing more housing in our electorate, whether it be those building them or those regulating and permitting that building, understand the issues which govern the ability to build the houses everyone agrees we need.

There are essentially two types of development; greenfields and brownfields. Greenfields means building on currently undeveloped land, typically ex farmland on the edges of current urban areas, where infrastructure like sewers, water supply and other essential services don’t exist are usually built by the developer.

The disruption to all our lives caused by the incursion of the COVID-19 pandemic has left the whole world struggling to get back to some sort of normal, whether it be supply disruption, labour shortages, or travel. That those frustrations seem to have manifested themselves in driving behaviour, is the feedback I get from constituents, and I might say is borne out by my own observations.

Brownfields development means rebuilding on existing sites, and there has been considerable discussion in recent times around how much intensification should be allowed in existing suburbs, especially changing of height limits to allow for more apartments.

The promotion of my colleague Willow-Jean Prime this week to Cabinet signals the first time cabinet has been half women. Over my working career I have seen all sorts of similar milestones reached, and not long afterwards, when such things become the norm, we invariably look back and wonder what the fuss was all about.

Developers of course need to make a profit, and wish to keep their compliance costs as low as possible. Many believe the Resource Management Act is too cumbersome. We as government for our part have undertaken to rewrite that act.

Change is constant, and things will never go back to the way they were, however nostalgic people become for the ‘good old days’, which weren’t always as good as we remember; it’s often said pain has no memory.

The feedback was good, but the success will be when there are sufficient affordable houses to meetdemand. That is certainly my goal as your MP.

I’m a great believer in good manners for the basis of keeping a society functioning efficiently, and much of the behaviour on the roads has been downright bad manners. Here’s hoping those results over the weekend indicate

Both have their advantages and disadvantages; the Regional Council in particular see their role to prevent more

That, and of course having a vibrant and functioning Johnsonville Shopping Centre we can all be proud of.

There’s plenty to be getting on with.

We are pretty adaptable as New Zealanders, not constrained by centuries of tradition like much of the world, and that will always be to our advantage. Let’s enjoy the difference, and the rest of autumn.