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❚ Had a good laugh when reading about the Manawatu¯ Standard only publishing liberal Lefty views in texts. Have they not read the endless hard Right texts that are published from Pam?

❚ In response to yesterday’s text,

how does one control a cat? Our 19-year-old puss runs the house. We wouldn’t have it any other way. BD

❚ Re cat problem. Set a trap and turn the hose on full. The cat will survive, but won’t come back.

❚ Here we go again. Good old Oksana and her amazing ability to get free advertising on the front page of the Manawatu¯ Standard, even an airbrushed photo and a

picture of the premises. Crikey, even Harvey Norman don’t get that much publicity and it probably pays.

❚ Great to see some human interest stories rather than disaster or crime.

❚ There should be an embargo on the very annoying Trivago ads before we are all stoned on tranquilisers.

❚ Text in Monday’s Standard

attempting to correct Sue Foley (Standard, Jan 4) is incorrect. 2XS was also a Palmerston North radio station. C

❚ So, taxpayer money is funding the Te Ara Mauwhare Pathways to Home Ownership programme to increase home ownership among Ma¯ori. Why is there no similar scheme for non-ma¯ori?

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