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Recognise anyone?
The attached photograph was taken on a visit to the old Awarua Radio ZLB station between Invercargill and Bluff.
While names are listed and attached to the photograph not all persons are known.
The photograph can be dated between 1955 and 1957.
Mr Sid Holland was Prime Minister until 1957 and John Houlihan was the Awarua Radio Superintendent from 1955-1958.
Might one of your readers might recognise the others? Alex Glennie Invercargill
Climate change
I hope our Mayor was one who spoke up about the Government’s pathetic action on climate change.
Ecocide is a good word for what we are doing to our one and only planet.
We are systematically exterminating our environment by political will and policy, greed and ignorance. The planet will not die. Some of the orders of life will remain.
There will probably be humans among the surviving species.
But the current ecology that supports us will be gone, certainly seriously degraded in our lifetime.
This problem has been too big for National.
Their efforts have ranged from empty rhetoric, destructive law changes, to deliberately misleading actions, and they have brought NZ into disrepute.
There are answers and there is will, in other parties.
Our ability to respond to the onslaught of disasters needs central government leadership.
Our future demands more than the shallow bribery and raging u-turns that National is proffering.
This election is the time to vote for a real and pragmatic future for New Zealand. David Russell Invercargill
Disgusting
I would have to wonder who the player was who threw up whilst running on to the field for the Highlanders-Crusaders match?
More to the point what was wrong with him which caused such a disgusting spectacle on national television? Trevor J. Brown Invercargill Abridged. Sportspeople do that sometimes. Typically the explanation is nerves or unwellness, or a combination of both. The news and broadcast media don’t go out of their way to capture such a mildly mortifying moment, but there are times it can happen to the regret of all concerned. Or most, anyway.
- Editor
Poverty
Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity it is an act of justice like overcoming slavery and apartheid.
Poverty is not natural it is man made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great.
Will we be that great generation?
Although times have changed, poverty and homelessness was turned around in 1935 but gradually selfishness and and materialism has crept into our society once again. O Sinclair Gore