North Shore Times (New Zealand)
STARLIGHT GETS VOTE
Which candidates in the forthcoming local body elections have the agenda to bring back the wonderful Starlight Symphony?
With much of our overpriced rates currently being spent on ongoing ho-hum issues, why not spend money on something we can cheer about?
It’s a celebration of summer, a celebration of Auckland, a celebration of good music, a celebration of life!
Raise the spirits of the people. Put smiles on faces. More than 200,000 people at each of the previous block-busting events can testify to that.
C’mon Aucklanders, put pressure on the candidates in your electorate and get smiling. Colin Francis
Beach Haven
TWO ZONES ON SHORE
The story entitled Fares drop delights commuter in the August 25 edition of the North Shore Times is slightly misleading. A trip to Takapuna from my house in Browns Bay now costs $3.10 using a HOP card and not $1.80 as per your article and the cost of a trip into the city, at $4.90, remains unchanged.
Under the new fare structure introduced by Auckland Transport, the North Shore is divided into two fare zones and not one. These are Upper North Shore and Lower North Shore.
I would like to clarify that the commuter in your article travels from the Lower North Shore Zone. Any travel between zones except where there is some overlap in zones such as the area around Mairangi Bay, Constellation Drive, and Unsworth Heights, will cost $3.10 when using a hop card, while the equivalent cash fare is $5.00.
Christine Tregonning Browns Bay
CATS, SECONDED
I agree with Kevin Fox that cats are worst predator of our birds.
My house backs onto Chatswood Reserve, where native birds abound, especially Tui.
I have a tui feeder in my garden and get so much pleasure out of seeing these birds up so close, and in what I hope is a safe environment .
Sadly though, neighbours’ cats stroll through, and one afternoon I came home to find tui feathers scattered on my lawn !!!! .
People who choose to have cats should keep them inside, yes - at all times. If that cat took its trophy home, I wonder, was it praised or punished?
The law is dogs must be kept on owners’ property, so why not
VOTE WISELY
The season has started when our streets are once again littered with hoardings and our mail boxes filled with pamphlets from those candidates vying for positions on the council and community boards.
I find it quite ironic that once elected they forget who it was that employed them and gave them their three-year employment contract on a very generous honorarium.
It is to be hoped that the public will see through this and elect those people wo can be trusted, taking special note of those who were in favour of ‘‘confiscating’’ the Takapuna Holiday Park so that their wealthy yachtie friends could have a prime position on the public foreshore. Hopefully these councillors and board members will be voted into obscurity
Bruce Thompson
Glenfield
HAVE YOUR SAY
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