A kindness to readers

Ideas came from residents

Email: letters@ dompost.co.nz No attachments. Write: Letters to the Editor, PO Box 1297, Wellington, 6040. Letters must include the writer’s full name, home address and daytime phone number. Letters should not exceed 200 words and must be exclusive. Letters may be edited for clarity and length. In Choosing Napier’s war memorial (Nov 20), it is stated that “the options include two council-created options and one resident-created option’’. This is incorrect. The Napier City Council created only one of the three design options included in the current consultation.

Both the forecourt option, with a memorial building sited in front of the War Memorial Centre, and the indoors option, with the memorial elements located inside the War Memorial Centre, are “resident-created” options.

The forecourt option was designed by Guy Natusch, the original architect of the centre, and the indoor option is a concept put forward by Napier resident Craig Morley.

Thus, there are two “resident-created” options and just one from the Napier City Council. Dorothy Pilkington, Napier Paul Williams of Grenada Village writes (Nov 19) that ‘‘few know’’ the meaning of the te reo word ‘‘manaaki’’, in decrying Mayor Justin Lester’s decision to name Wellington’s ‘‘Kindness Day’’ as Manaaki Day.

Thank you to Williams for bothering to write his letter, as now several thousand more people know that manaaki does indeed mean kindness. Which I imagine was exactly what our mayor had in mind.

Graeme Tuckett, Mt Cook