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● Excellent article written by Craig Foss on Monday, well put. Our lovely towns people need to understand what the farmers do for the country, let alone Hawke’s Bay. Let’s respect and love one another. Enjoy rain, the land desperately needs it. KAT

● What is the reason people cannot attend church services using that same criteria as restaurants regarding spacing, numbers, duration?

● Why do truckies use engine

brakes on Pebensen Drive?

● Thanks to Hawke’s Bay Drought for their amazing ‘Smoko Box’ delivery on Thursday, very much appreciated.

● Jacinda has done well through Covid but Labour is not the party to lead us through a financial and economic recovery.

● Nurses and teachers, move over! Let’s praise our supermarket staff and the couriers — we can’t do without you. Now, the new essential workers are hairdressers and wouldn’t you agree that it’s time they were acknowledged.

● Todd Muller and Nikki Kaye, watch out Labour, National is on the way up.

● Jacinda Ardern’s team and leadership amazing. Christchurch shootings, Pike River Mine, volcano eruption, Covid-19 nurses and teachers’ wage increase, keeping homes warm and healthy and much more. National in nine years did nothing but look after the wealthy, allowed housing shortages, homelessness increases plus more. LMP

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