Manawatu Standard

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PNCC, please tighten your belts! Not sure how we’ll pay proposed rates increase – no way of increasing our income!

Have any of these ‘‘green experts’’ sat down and figured how much electricit­y is going to be needed for schools to convert their heating systems?

Friday 7th: exorbitant rates. Try organising amarch around the Square. Council need to listen to residents. Good luck.

Petrol prices sneaking up again, just in time to cause us more winter misery. BND

Maybe the person on your front page story [May 9] should just get a high profile or rich person to complain. it seemed to work in Valour Drive. HB Bunnythorp­e

Well done Nico re Unilever plastic scoops [May 5]. I have some cardboard scoops trialled by them many years ago. They then changed the powder formula that needed a smaller scoop. So they made it in plastic. Go figure.

Palmerston North rural community concern about wastewater discharge going to flood-prone land is nothing new, it’s already happening in Foxton.

The boy racers are also at Tiakitahun­a, Highway 56 corner, probably every Friday night and the police get phoned and do nothing.

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