Better solutions needed to save St Clair Beach
MEANWHILE, down at St Clair
Beach, the sand dunes have been getting washed away, to be replaced by truckloads of more sand from another beach, only to be washed away again to end up back at the beach it came from.
Sandbags have been washed away and the groynes have washed away. The stairs were washed away, and, when they were replaced, they were washed away, leaving a huge mess.
Finally, ratepayers have paid out thousands of dollars on socalled experts, consultants and contractors, to have it all washed out to sea.
Brilliant!
Brian Andrews
St Kilda
Care for the carers
THE latest article (ODT, 15.9.22) about paltry travel and accommodation benefits for people and their carers attending lifesupporting hospital treatments makes me sick and angry. I have tried to talk to Ingrid Leary MP about this.
Unpaid family/whanau carers have been taken advantage of, and treated badly, by successive governments for decades. They are the unseen, unpaid workforce that the health system relies upon to put up and shut up.
Unpaid family/whanau carers, representing onefifth of the population, have cared for and supported patients with a disability, chronic illness, or addiction, forever.
The needs of these patients would otherwise drain the health system, but successive governments have taken advantage of the strong family love and connection to ignore the sometimes desperate needs of this unpaid burntout workforce.
Not being reimbursed properly for travel and accommodation costs is just the tip of a very huge iceberg of close to one million family carers. Susan Easterbrook
Dunedin
Slow speed zones
THE 40kmh speed limit recently put in place in the builtup areas is safe and sensible for public safety. The problem is these zones extend way past where they need to.
The slow pace frustrates some drivers who overtake in these areas. These areas previously were 50kmh and should have stayed that way.
As for the two abrupt speed humps at Macandrew Bay, the less said.
In the straight sections of road, 80kmh was the speed limit, now reduced to 70kmh.
Many drivers will use a bit of discretion.
B. J. McLachlan Company Bay
Schools reunion
150 years Taieri and Mosgiel School reunion — Taieri College, Taieri High School, Mosgiel Intermediate School and Mosgiel District High School.
Labour Weekend, October 2123. Register: taieri.school.nz
or email taierireunion@encoreeventcoordination.co.nz