‘Disposal’ of Dunedin Railway assets reflects poorly on council
SO, the DCC has finally revealed its master plan, by calling for evaluation of options for sustainable utilisation of Dunedin Railway assets.
Or should that be: is there anyone out there who wants to buy a railway cheap, because we don't want it?
Anyone associated with any project that relies on the raising of public money and charities beware, for anything that winds up in DCC hands is eventually disposed of.
Dunedin Railway is the successor to a lot of hard input by volunteers from the city to establish a viable train.
The use of deferred maintenance costs is just a ploy.
If sustainable financial return is the basis of the whole argument, why is Forsyth Barr Stadium still allowed to trade?
Its finances appear to be more woeful than Citifleet. Why hasn't it been reduced to log storage?
John Sinclair
Dunedin
Mail delivery
I HAVE wondered why it takes over a week for mail from Mosgiel to arrive in Christchurch, and have been informed that the mail now goes to Auckland then back to Christchurch. Is it possible for the Otago Daily
to find out if this is the position?
R. Bennet
Mosgiel
[An NZ Post spokesman replies:
‘‘NZ Post has a delivery target for mail of three working days, with the day of posting set as day zero. Mail posted in Mosgiel is sent to our Christchurch Mail Centre for processing, and then sent out for delivery.
‘‘We do our best to deliver all mail safely and within this target, but sometimes, due to the nature of logistics, delays can occur.
‘‘For context, we delivered
380 million letters in the last financial year, with the majority of them arriving safely, and on time.’’]
Karen cartoon
MY given name is Karen and today’s cartoon (ODT, 30.7.20) saddens me.
It shows a mindset that thinks it OK to mock and call people stupid because of their name — apparently this stems from something in the United States and has been taken up as the latest way to show how witty and clever someone is to use it as a collective trait in middleaged white women.
When we are being asked to be kind, I am sure this doesn’t include mockery of a group of people who just happen to have a ‘‘key name’’, but is it OK when adults do it?
Let’s hope that next year’s mockery name is not “Shaun”, resulting him feeling bullied.
Please feel free to insert your own Christian name into the cartoon and see how funny you find it.
Karen Ratten
St Kilda