Thanks Sacha for adding url at 17.1....was in great haste this a.m.
Annabel Crabb, chief reporter ABC has piece just reported on RadioNZ web . It says it all. A wonderful piece.
Whooping cough was best...after the awful coughing the rest of 6 weeks off school to ride bikes up and down SH1 (wartime and almost no traffic. Seriously, they were all dangerous. Think the first immunisations were for diphtheria early 1940's, done at ...
Too long ago for me to remember ...just think Helensville area was the intended venue which guess equates with the Kaipara Harbour mentioned elsewhere. Incidentally this guy seemed against the proposition.
To Alwyn at 2.2.2 Guy who showed plans to me had gone to UK to work on it...don't want to name him but he was an NZED manager. He showed me plans (blueprints) about end of '70's. Maybe the idea was being revived at that time, which was definitely the Think...
in corroboration Ad : yes this planning of nuclear power stations under Think Big policy of Muldoon was a reality. I was shown a plan by one NZED participant of the era.
The urgency of the coming week is to join with the wise young folk still at school in their plea for urgent action to defray climate change. These hapless young beings, only too aware of what lies ahead if concerted radical measures are not taken ...
Agree wholeheartedly Patricia especially with your last sentence. Urgency is the name of the game. I will be with the young people next Friday, and have already written to ODT.
Thank you hugely Mike for your warm comments re Ruth, dependable, sincere, insightful, hardworking , non-flamboyant not self-seeking. It is plain to see the motivation of sundry detractors above. I wish Ruth well as she completes her dedication to our less...
A wonderful read on this glorious morning....the golden rule embodied, embellished, and written to and for a universal readership in superbly crafted way for our times and its problems.
This is much bigger even than what you suggest DM and needs all parliament and co-opted specialists working together with as you say "no friction".
Jimmy: I reiterate my urgings above . There is no room for fragmentation of any form on this matter of dealing with green issues/climate change. Co-operation of all is essential immediately.
To Dennis Frank @5.1.1.1 re "there has been neither left nor right etc": There are at least two editions in the Hocken Library of the newsletter of the Labour Green group within the Labour Party which existed before advent of Alliance or the Green Party. I...
I see little reference to urban sprawl and its aggressive takeover of agricultural land. Decades ago I watched in disbelief as strawberry fields and market gardens on outskirts of Auckland disappeared. Latterly I grieve at same fate of lush farmland ...
To GWS re thin skin: Kids' shin pads fabulous in garden , tall grass and scrubby stuff...any sports' shop. Best wishes.
just poured from boiling kettle...might need a few trips!
to GWS at 2.2.1.2.1 : Hey there! I must take you up on your presumption re older people and use of herbicides! I'm on my 87th whirl around the sun and for decades neither I nor my many gardener friends have used these poisons....boiling water..yes, ...
Thanks for answering Robert...yes I have resorted to pollinating by hand.
to Robert Guyton at 1.1.1. and 2.2.1: Agree wholeheartedly with your concern for plight of insects etc, the lack of bees troubling me greatly at present over non-setting of my exuberant Russian Reds. I suspect all-to-prevalent use of weedkillers. Many have...
to Darien at 20: +1000 Darien. I find it unbelievable that such vicious, bullying, heartless and selective behaviour still flourishes, and particularly by those supposedly well educated. Shame indeed.
Hopefully not...and hoist by her own petard?
It seems to me that fake news of insidious intent is very much aligned to slander if used directly against a person, but if as suggested above that Collin's explicit example was to damage Bridges, then even more insidious.
To DF at 13.2.3.1 : MY first year with 43 was in 1953.......I cannot exactly define the others, but they were fairly closely following. NZ primary schools have 8 yearly levels/steps, followed by up to 5 more at secondary school. Many Yr7 and Yr8 primary ...
You were lucky Dennis Frank to have known class sizes in the 1950's of 30! 40 was the legal limit. I taught 43 as a first year teacher and again several times in next 20 years including one year with eight pupils with no English or English as a second ...
to Gosman at 4.4.1 : Did you study or know even by correspondence early members of the ANC or their courageous supporters? Think by the above that perhaps not, but their writings and bios remain to access.
to Gosman at 4: Mmmm.......I suppose you know that many New Zealanders also were labelled as communist in those times too, for supporting the anti-apartheid cause or slavery cause whichever way it's looked upon. Hilarious but serious. The labellers ...
to Gosman at 2 : I see that you didn't read widely or contact folk who could have helped your knowledge of those times. Many books written from firsthand experience of the time will still be around. Good hunting.
To RG at 1.1 : as well as cutting costs of reticulation and hopefully reducing the awful pong that folk near treatment ponds suffer.
to Exkiwiforces at 10.3.1: Your seeming condescension not welcomed. I well remember the ramifications of WW2 AND the world politics involved.
To R G at 10 : Sad that this common-sense approach has taken so much energy over the decades yet still needs propounding . Many thanks for bringing it to notice again.
Great move towards somewhat easier situation for low paid folk! In regard to TPU complaint about this decision being made by the Government , surely it just reflects the pattern of equal pay for women in the Public Service welcomed by so many of us long ...
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