To the point

Listening to the radio programme on toilets in Dunedin, when did it become illegal for men to use the left rear wheel of a cart?

J. Park

Wakari

IT is well known that using cellphones for phone calls or texting by drivers is illegal, and the ban stems from the driver distraction caused by that use. However, it is common for many new trucks and cars to have large touchscreen displays in the middle of the dash, and these require manual operation. I believe that these are every bit as dangerously distracting as phones, but the Government still allows their use.

B. Swale

Clyde

I SEE that now the holidays have passed, we again have the slightly irritating and bizarre situation of TV newsreaders seemingly being unable to read more than one sentence at a time.

Humphrey Catchpole

Dunedin Central

MY prediction made in a letter to the editor in December appears to be accurate. I recalled a Chaucerian character who made a good living selling pardons. Now we hear that those seeking a pardon from Donald Trump are being asked to pay big money in order to contact him and ask for a pardon. In future I will not make predictions based on literature for fear they might come true.

Lynne Hill

Mosgiel

THERE are countless cyber attacks on banking and other institutional and individual systems, reported and otherwise. In response, banks say that (tried and proven) cheque use is now a security risk and hindrance.

R. Hogan

Waikouaiti

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