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Imaginative leadership.
Thank you for your front-page acknowledgment in Mahurangi Matters of two young New Zealanders and their outstanding achievements the fields of politics and technology (MM June 5). Both are recognised – at least by the international community – for their powerful and imaginative leadership in responding to the scourge of global terrorism. Odd though it seems, I don’t recall any local newspaper in our mid-north region ever publishing a front-page photograph of our internationally-acclaimed Prime Minister. Well done, Mahurangi Matters.
Brent Morrissey, Te Arai
Good work, Colin.
Unbelievable really, that Colin Smith and others felt compelled to put in money and time to fix Worker Road (MM June 5). I’ve often used this road in summer, as it cuts out the chaos that is Wellsford’s main street. No truck by-pass here. What a shame that this wonderful group of people can’t do all our local roads. I live off Wayby Station Road and, after months and months of pleading by local residents, a team finally arrived to do ‘maintenance’. This consisted of flooding an already wet road with a water truck and then grading the roadside mud into potholes. It didn’t last a week. Coincidentally, I met the ‘maintenance supervisor’ on the road and asked him why it couldn’t be done properly. Why gravel couldn’t be put into the potholes before rolling? His answer: “In my view it’s acceptable.” In other words, “go away!” This is a council scam. No question. Thanks at least for Colin as our representative. As he said, “It’s just ridiculous.”
Barry Read, Wayby
Chemist concern.
I, too, am aghast at the introduction of a second commercial pharmacy in the new doctors’ complex at Snells Beach (MM June 5). My family and I have enjoyed exemplary, expeditious and cheerful service at all times from the existing pharmacy opposite the doctor’s rooms for several decades; first from Bruce, and now Anna and her team. This was particularly welcome in recent years when my wife was progressively and constantly in need of expert care and medication. The new entrepreneurial medical complex is an asset to Snells Beach, but ‘live and let live’. Just because we have four retail liquor outlets here, that can’t justify this uninvited duplication. I am sending this letter, together with that of Geoffrey Bowes, to the Waitemata DHB, as he suggests.
Geoff Ward, Snells Beach
