TO THE POINT

SHARON ELLIS,

Never again will I listen to Dylan’s Tambourine Man without conjuring up an image of Baden Powell in drag. Anyone who can elicit laughing out loud at 7am on a dreary Wednesday morning is doing something right in the sad and uncertain world . . . carry on, Mr Joe Bennett, good job.

Pukerua Bay

KATE MOWATT,

One might expect the police to protect and support little old ladies. I have seen little evidence of this so I should not be surprised at their draconian treatment of the elderly women who belong to VES and EXIT. I am with Maryan Street. Back off, I say. Te Aro Re seclusion rooms in schools: Shouldn’t it be a basic human right to never be intentionally deprived of a source of fresh air thus being forced to breathe in one’s own carbon dioxide?

HEATHER MACKIE,

Trentham So, emissions from farms are the current target for Jan Wright and Vernon Small. I wish they, and probably the rest of the world, would call it for what it is, pollution pure and simple. The simple fact is that it costs farmers money to pollute, in feed and fertiliser. The sooner they figure out how to reduce pollution by applied science and improved management systems the better for all, especially their back pockets.

Masterton

GRAHAM DICK,

With the Kapiti Coast school roll explosion at one end and the demand for retirement villages at the other, planners may need to consider crop rotation.

GERRY CUNNEEN

Khandallah