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Perhaps Jessica Maxwell can fight to get fireworks banned. Far more animals are hurt/terrified/killed by them than rodeos I would like to know if Grenville Christie can back up his letter with any facts. MG. Great to hear another moaner from Marine Parade about the trucks. The trucks were there way before you shifted there. If you didn’t like them then why did you shift there in the first place? Welcome back Gary Sparks and his information as well as the megadistance kilometres. Thanks from all us dumb amateurs After the waterpipe upgrade on St George’s Rd the resealing between Ada St and Crosses Rd has already had over 20 holes patched! Now it has had the painted lines redone so obviously it is going to be left in this patched up state. Why is the council not demanding the contractor redo this? Unbelievable!!! Absolutely delighted members of the Taradale RSA decided against the merger with the Taradale Club the committee now needs a clean out and introduce new businesspeople to turn it around Thank you so much Pauline for your letter in Saturday’s paper. So good to hear your sound advice for NCC. Of course NCC should be drilling more bores. Of course chlorination, which has caused more harm than good, should be stopped and E. coli levels continuously managed. As we have said for years now — our aquifers were our pride and joy — let’s enjoy them again and be proud of our city. T. Allen To JLM, Napier RSA is one of the best clubs in HB, dress code and all, they have the best bar staff than any bar. So all I can say, JLM go to an Ahuriri bar, more skin less polite. TOM Re text about look what the Government has created. Do you smoke cigarettes? If so quit . . . or maybe you can’t lol Thank you to everyone who has swapped out their non-compliant fire for a clean heat source. We can all breathe cleaner air this winter. Re text about so many strikes in NZ. Thank the last lot for this. Nine years of nothing. Congratulations to the Loose Change shop in Taradale who have put photos of shoplifters in the window for all to see. Maybe if other shops followed suit it may stamp these thieves out Why has ‘like amazing’ become so prevalent, especially in young people’s vocabulary? A group on a NZ TV panel used the word ‘like’ in most sentences. Is there, like, a reason for this? Thank you for texting your views. Please note that owing to the anonymous nature of texts we will not publish unfair personal attacks. — Ed