Short & sweet

On daycares

“Most early childhood education centres spot on,” says Nicola Willis. Why not all of them!

On mail

D. Mills, Glenfield.

I just received a letter from Waiheke Island postmarked 20 JUNE!! This was correctly addressed complete with postcode and has taken six weeks and five days to reach me. Honestly I could have walked on water and picked up the letter from Waiheke quicker than this. Ditch the humans, bring back the pigeons I say.

Margaret Wyatt, Flat Bush.

On deprivation

Your correspondent Jacqui Anderson needs a history lesson on the 1930s period. I was a boy then and I can assure her it was no “easy” lifestyle. No jobs and very 1.

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