Best drinking water in the world right under our feet
I, like hundreds of people who don’t like drinking chlorinated water and can’t afford the cost of putting a filter on my domestic water supply, are probably filling up water bottles at the artesian well behind the Hastings Library.
Why are we still drinking chlorine water from our taps?
We have the best artesian water in the world beneath our feet but companies have been given the rights to take what they want without any regulation . . . and the farmers in Waipawa are wondering where their water is going. Roger Wright
Hastings
Teachers’ strike timing
While I agree that teachers need a rise in funding and wages, I would like to ask a senior education person why they are striking now when the Government is beginning to address the shortfall, yet did nothing during the past nine years when the previous Government kept cutting their funding and closing schools causing class sizes to rise.
David Davy
Taradale
Trump’s victory
Interesting that Ted Zorn ( HBT Friday) should accuse Trump of “manipulating the news” then himself imply a historic Democrat victory in the Midterms because “the last time the Democrats increased their margin by this many seats (37) Nixon was in the White House”, suggesting a tectonic voter shift when in reality such losses are commonplace.
But more usually it’s Democrats losing to Republicans — and actually it was Gerald Ford, not Nixon, who was President when the Republicans lost 48 seats in 1974.
Viewed in context, on average the President’s party loses 30 seats in every Midterm election, with such political heavyweights as Roosevelt, Trueman and Eisenhower all losing more than the 37-seat shift against Trump’s Republicans this time around.
And Professor Zorn conveniently overlooks the fact that under Barack Obama, doyen of the liberal left, the Democrats lost nearly twice as many seats . . . 72 in total.
This election a “complete victory” for Trump? From a historical perspective it probably was.
John Denton
Napier RD1