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‘‘double dipper’’ Jono Naylor was more engaged in his phone rather than listening to the audience that turned up to hear the candidates’ views on issues that concerned them.

To the guy pinching the shrubs from Linklater Park, shame on you.

Banning Ma¯ori in schools was not an attempt to increase our children’s knowledge of English. It was an attempt to colonise and assimilate

Ma¯ori into the Pa¯keha¯ world so they could serve their ‘‘betters’’ more productively.

❚ Please bring back Plunket nurse home visits for new babies. Would help tremendously to identify vulnerable families who aren’t coping. ❚ So, no pay rise for MPS for 12 months. Does that mean in 12 months they will get double the pay rise they would have got? Or backdated 12

Bmonths as well?

❚ Amazing how John Key took the moral high ground, saying hands are tied with regard to MPS’ salaries, but now something is being done about it under this excellent Government. Hallelujah. Brief messages to 021 064 0009

1. What James Bond film of the modern era took its name from the fictional Bond family estate in the Scottish Highlands?

2. In a 1959 hit song, who called the English teacher Daddy-o?

3. Gary Mehigan, George Calombaris and Matt Preston appear in what long-running TV show?

What word can precede major, kit or brake?

Keith Murdoch, who was controversially banished from an All Black tour of Britain in 1972, played in what position?

6. In a nursery rhyme, what were the occupations of the three men in a tub?

7. What first name is shared by a writer named Didion, a musician named Jett and an actress named Collins?

8. What is the medical term for acute sensitivity to light?

9. What was the brand name of ‘‘the drink you have when you’re not having a drink’’?

10. Oreti Beach is in what province?

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