Questions on airport shift unanswered
On Wednesday, May 25 submissions regarding the proposed new Whangārei airport close.
Could we please ask the Whangārei District Council the following questions.
What are the expected number of flights including commercial flights, aero club flights and Nest flights?
What size planes will be using the airport and what is the noise level of these planes?
What will be done to mitigate noise issues?
What are the projected number of new jobs?
What is the cost analysis for each site?
This must have been done but has not been released?
Where is funding likely to come from, eg who are the interested parties?
The public discussion documents give broad information with no substance. For example the One Tree Pt proposal has lead to numerous questions that have not been answered.
How will the issue of coastal inundation be addressed?
What will be done to mitigate the risk to an airport in this area as the site is in a tsunami zone?
One Tree Pt had geological issues with peat. What is the cost of removing the peat compared to the geological cost at other sites?
There are recorded archaeological sites in this. What would be done about this?
What is the response to this proposal from the local iwi? Under the Wildlife act of 1953 it is an offence “to do anything likely to cause any wildlife to leave the wildlife refuge”. How will WDC ensure the protection of the known native wildlife in the proposed flight plan? How will the plan effect Three Waters?
None of these questions were answered in any detail at (Wednesday) nights online public forum.
How are the public able to make informed submissions by May 25 with little detail? This is not public consultation when information is not made available. Could you please help hold the council accountable and publish the answer to these questions and provide detailed information for all sites. We believe the council has already made it's decision and is merely going through the motions. The Whangārei community deserves better than this from it's council.
Chris and Sharyn Lines Whangārei
Drag queens in library?
What is the world coming to when we have drag queens entertaining small children (advertised by the WDC as Rainbow Storytime, suitable for ages 2-12 years)? Last Friday, this happened in our own city library. Why is the abnormal being normalised in this very inappropriate way?
Drag queens belong to the adult entertainment world, not trying to convince young kids that it is okay for men to be dressed as women, but not in the usual way women dress, with their heavy make-up, wigs, short skirts, high heels, etc and their deep voices.
Such people belong to adult cabarets not to a children’s library, especially as very young children were invited and in attendance. If people were strutting around naked in public, would that mean they should be supported to demonstrate “acceptance, inclusion and confidence in yourself”?
Shame on our WDC and our city library which would have approved/ funded this early sexualisation/ indoctrination of our young offspring. Not only that, it demeans women in society, apart from undermining the family.
A concerned citizen
Vogue ‘may be’ biased
The words “Trump” and “bias” have appeared in probably thousands of newspaper reports especially in conjunction with “fake news” but now there is a new and quite different example.
Melania Trump has expressed concern that Vogue magazine may be biased against her as they haven't asked her to be on the front page.
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biases as they have also never asked me to appear on their cover either. This is possibly related to me being a 63-year-old, fat, bald man with the general appearance of a biker. I would even be willing to wear a nice evening dress although they don't seem to come in a 7X size.
I'm not holding a grudge and am still ready to make my own unique contribution to the fashion world. Dennis Fitzgerald Melbourne, Australia