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■ Why such a saturation of ‘English’ in our lives. I, like R & WB, Monday txt, are fed up and tired of it. Malcolm
■ Most race courses have free entry these days, but taki Ma¯ori Club charged $20 gate entry. No wonder there was a poor turnout.
■ I wonder if anyone is as confused as I amwith the new roadmarking on the new seal in College Street. Seems to be an abundance of white lines. Cycle lanes are being installed. We’ve been waiting on council comment for a story. – Editor
■ Road cones article by Steve Stannard [Saturday, Feb 27] an absolute classic – very clever & entertaining. Nanac
■ As housing values shoot up in Palmerston North, Shane Jones’s $40M koha to Kiwirail to buy up property for the freight hub may not be enough. Palmerston North needs houses not trains. APF
■ R1100, Joh Bjelke Petersen was the biggest New Zealand-born Australian bigot export ever. BAREFOOT
■ If the government’s 3% benefit/ pension increase is their idea of reducing poverty, it shows how out of touch with reality this government is. How will 3% help when rents have increased by 15-20% and other costs keep rising?
■ DB: To the best of my knowledge, the only electric motorcycle in New Zealand is a Harley Davidson demonstrator. The company says its highway range is the same as "a Sportster with a peanut tank". That’s a tank holding 2 US gallons, 3.78 litres. I ride 114km to work, so that is utterly inadequate. Not all motorcyclists are short range lifestylers; some use them for transport. R1100
■ Has anyone who designed new road layout on College St where the corner is driven on it? It’s like a slalom! Feels verging on dangerous. Anyone else agree?
■ I worry about the people who live here, who may have been in Auckland for whatever reason that fateful week, have come home to carry on working in public places or belong to leisure groups and don’t realise they’ve picked up Covid till it hits them. Then there are who knows howmany other people they’ve infected. We don’t find out that it’s spreading around Auckland till about a week later. This has happened twice tomy knowledge but fortunately the people who were in Auckland and Taranaki¯oat the time hadn’t become infected.
■ Great to see our supermarkets monitoring customers under Level 2, except Pak n Save. Jam packed! Maybe they are exempt.