Farewell to Porirua after 18 happy years
if they have no income other than superannuation.
The inadequacy of superannuation payments.
Many people consider superannuation to be too generous, but it might be a different story if they had to live on it.
The approach by economic ‘‘experts’’ to how to make our country flourish.
Nothing changes. Where once people were urged to save money, now financial success appears to involve having people spend as much as possible – as evidenced by the maelstrom of ‘‘sales’’ advertised.
Grey Power is in the business of persuading politicians how best to cater for older citizens, so elections remain top of our focus of interest.
Other topics I have addressed include age-friendly cities, the Wellington super-city proposal, the income gap, scams, law and order and affordable housing.
It is this last that will be occupying our attention as we move from Porirua. We have bought a section in Levin – sections are still a reasonable price there – and are putting on it a modular house that should tick all the boxes for the elderly and/or first-time buyers.
And so, after 18 years, we are moving on and ‘‘walking through the rooms of our lives . . . not looking for flaws, but for potential’’.
I would like to thank Porirua for what it has given me. I am a different person now from the one who arrived from Lyall Bay.
I would also like to express my
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appreciation for the support offered by Kapi-Mana News in allowing me to write this column and thus keep Grey Power in the public consciousness, which is
‘‘After 18 years, we are moving on and walking through the rooms of our lives . . . not looking for flaws, but for potential.’’
why I undertook the monthly task.
To all our friends and acquaintances, thank you. If, when we are established in our new place, you happen to be passing through Levin, we would be delighted to show you the results of our enterprise. Ka kite ano.