TXT the editor

❚ Bring Air Chathams to Palmy.

❚ On a recent video conference, the businessman asked where I was from. I said Palmerston North and he said: ‘‘I’m sorry about that.’’ When are we going to invest in true creative talent to develop and exceptional promotional campaign for our city? Time to raise our expectations.

❚ Victoria Esplanade well worth a visit or a drive through – cherry trees in full flower. Don’t forget your camera. Jack

❚ Robberies getting more brazen and now appear to be the norm. They know they will get away with it because they are our ‘‘underprivileged’’. Never mind the victims left traumatised. Pam

❚ Vaping is a human weakness. You have to have guts and willpower to

Dstop smoking.

❚ How to stop so many road deaths – bring back traffic officers like we used to have. Boy racers know they can get away with speed etc. GT

❚ Joe Bennett, this is sick journalism. Marjie

❚ Sorry, but Ma¯ori are indigenous to this country. Check this in a dictionary. The word meaning ‘‘evolved here’’ is autochthonous. R65

❚ That Judith Collins National Party is so smug.

❚ Yes, agreed C. National Party on ‘‘the road to nowhere’’. Very apt as that is the title of a Talking Heads’ song and that in itself is selfexplanatory.

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