To the point

I RESPECTFULLY suggest that the mayor and all councillors, perhaps with the exception of one, immediately vote themselves a 20% pay increase and go on holiday until the next election. Dunedin’s residents and ratepayers will thank you for it.

Gerald Morrison

Opoho

I EXPECT the Dunedin City Council to start three new ‘‘naughty files’’ on Crs Houlahan, Laufiso and Staynes (ODT,

18.11.20), the same as it has for Lee Vandervis. If not, why not? No doubt the mayor will now have to employ two more assistants, one to keep track of these incidents, and one to file ‘‘hurt feelings reports’’.

Neville McLay

Opoho

IN 1962, my grandfather died of injuries received when he was hit by a car (not the driver’s fault) by the Musselburgh shops. Cr Garey might like to consider pedestrianising that area, too!

June Turnbull

Dunedin

IT is not the national fertility rate that is the lowest figure ever (ODT, 19.11.20). It is the ‘‘fecundity’’ rate — births. Fertility is about the potential to give birth. Fecundity is the actual birth rate. Therefore, the nation has a low birth rate. It is anyone’s guess as to the actual fertility of its citizens.

Jim Moffat

Caversham

Priests in the hospital, prayer room in the public library. Do we really want to encourage religioncreep in our secular institutions?

Christopher Horan

Lake Hawea

The book award this week must surely go to Mr G.M. McKenna (Letters, 24.11.20). If I’ve ever actually ‘‘chortled’’, I believe that I did when I read that.

Pete Jenkins

Galloway

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