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Wiremu Dawson and his moko, from Hau Ariki Marae, alongside May and Peter Croft, during the blessing of and welcome to the new foodbank premises.
Review of rates under way
The first comment I make is intended to be helpful for people who are concerned about rates. The Council is undertaking a process called a “Rating Review” which looks at the principals and policies that determine how rates get set in the district.
If you would like to be consulted, please let me have your name and contact details and I will make sure you are put on the list of those to be contacted.
There will be a public notice when the consultation is occurring, but sometimes notices in newspapers and other such places get missed.
Last month the Council received some positive feedback from the Greater Wellington Regional Council (GWRC), regarding the Martinborough wastewater plant. As many of us are aware, this plant had been served with an abatement notice.
The Council has put a proposal to GWRC for the following future work on the plant. This work covers:
1. Desludging
2. Monitoring wastewater flow and quality, prior to future upgrades, and
3. Investigating UV treatment.
GWRC has accepted the Council’s proposals and has cancelled the original abatement notice and replaced it with three ‘To Do’ abatement notices aligned with the three projects listed above. … Continue Reading
The latest monthly meeting was held at Cobblestones where members enjoyed a morning tea instead of our usual evening dinner meeting.
The guest speaker at the meeting was Marquette Vierstraete from Riversdale, who spoke about Project Uplift.
This project aims to provide a collection of Bras for disadvantaged women in our community and women overseas.
Our Inner Wheel club collects Bras from our local lingerie shop in Greytown.
They are washed and sorted, then taken to M’Lady in Masterton where there is a collection box. They are then distributed as and where needed.
The last bundle we collected was given to Marquerite and sent to the Pacific Islands.
This is just one of the many projects our Inner Wheel club does.
The club meets for dinner once a month on the third Wednesday of the month. New members are very welcome. For further information ph 0276716227
Party Lines
By Maree Roy
It’s coming up to election time again. To me, it doesn’t seem long since the last one.
We’re being treated to the usual electioneering fever and all it entails: endless rounds of speechmaking, interviews, polls and so on, plus the [definitely] odd slanging match.
With the fast pace of modern life, short and snappy slogans are all the rage. My google-delving of the word slogan revealed it comes from the 16th century Gaelic “sluagh-ghairm,” literally a warcry. Says it all, really! Party lines, basically slogans in sheep’s clothing, are trotted out with an interesting and occasionally bizarre selection of these catchphrases.
The expression trotting out was first used in 1838 in reference to flash horses being put through their paces. Just seven years later it became slang for ‘produce and display for admiration’ – in other words, showing off combined with a dose of horse shit. Quite!
Hoardings and billboards, designed to let us know what the main party lines are, have been popping up like last month’s rabbits. Billboards are just noticeboards for displaying information (a bill being an alternative word for a notice), but I puzzled over hoardings. Back in history, a hourd was another name for a hyrdel: a frame used as a temporary barrier or fence, just like the modern day version: hurdle.
So it’s nothing to do with obsessive collecting which is probably a relief. Both require an eye-catching photo crying out for the usual defacing, and a slogan (ditto). … Continue Reading
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