Where has the money gone?
No protection
Vodafone spokesperson Nicky Preston seeks to reassure the public that 5G wireless technology is safe by saying it operates well within the safety limits set out by international guidelines (It all began with one cell tower, Northland Age February 18).
International guidelines are not protecting us from the harmful effects of radiation.
American professor of microbiology Martin Pall says regulatory authorities allow us to be radiated at a rate 7.2 million times higher than a level that causes biological change. DAVID DARKER
Kaitaia
Imagine
In answer to Sylvia Bryan (Bye bye Ballet, letters November 18), the Community Arts Committee could sponsor the ballet. Ballet is, after all, Art with a capital A.
In England, I believe, ballet comes to country towns and the performance is danced on the floor of the community hall, the audience seated around them in three rows. Imagine the joy of Te Ahu.
ROSE NORTH
Kaitaia
Heal thyself
The NZ Herald had an article recently about the lack of Pharmac funding for diabetes. It went on to state that 90 per cent of diabetes in New Zealand is lifestyle-related.
That would indicate to me that those people are physically lazy and they eat food that is nutritionally rubbish. Why should I as a taxpayer fund drugs for people who do not want to look after themselves? Sure there are 10 per cent that have a real medical condition that needs fixing, and that is fine, but I do not see why I should pay for lazy, gluttonous individuals who cannot stop filling themselves with sugar and highly-processed food.
Nutrition is not rocket science. We as humans have brains that supposedly raise us above the other animals on our planet. Unfortunately, many
Circa 2002, when Corrections was scoping a prison at Nga¯ wha¯ , FNDC had provided about $1.5 million for this in its long-term plan. It was a well known fact that in the event that a dry summer was preceded by a dry winter and summer, Kaikohe's water system would fail. The only surprise is that it has not catastrophically failed before now.
There has been criticism of Corrections for their draw on
humans are lazy animals, always trying to find the easiest way to do something with the least effort.
It’s a sad state of affairs when people think they deserve special treatment because they don’t have had the mental ability to manage their own dietary lifestyle or their physical activity.
So I say no to funding, unless your condition is real and not lifestyle. Take control of your body and your actions. Do not expect the rest of us to pay for your laziness. Take control of your own life and nutrition, it’s actually not that difficult. SIMPLE COUNTRY LAD
Awanui
Backing losers
I’ve always been a bit left of centre, favouring a Christian socialist government as the best bet for society in general. As the population of our world booms, bringing problems to all peoples and cultures, as well as obvious climatic extremes, traditional right wing policies that have held sway for generations must the Kaikohe water system. This criticism is not justified. Corrections funded their connection costs, and made a $500,000 contribution towards a less than $1m dam proposal that Ken Rintoul had brought forward by way of an annual plan submission. The Rintoul family offered to make the land available, as a gesture of goodwill to the community, at no cost.
Furthermore, there was a consented (per Brian Saward )
adapt to the eventuality of being led, probably kicking and yelling silly things like “Communists,” to a revised sharing of the wealth.
I’m puzzled as I look at the supposedly accurate political polls, and then sit with coffee and comfort food to watch question time in Parliament. Many questions are petulant digs, which I observe being firmly answered by the present government, verbally blowing the opposition away in most cases.
I’m sorry much of the mass media seems to be backing losers, and agree with a past National Prime Minister’s opinion of the polls. Then who knows, as often voters don’t recognise a party that butters their bread.
Young thinkers, get registered on the election roll. SAM McHARG
Kerikeri
Read it
Some of the most vociferous opponents of the End of Life Choice Act can’t be bothered to spring-fed dam site on Ken's land that could be easily piped into the system.
Questions now abound. Where did Corrections’ $500,000 go? Who pulled the funds and the pin on this essential dam? Who is going to provide the leadership for the full restoration of Lake O¯ ma¯pere so that it is the social, cultural and economic icon that it should be?
JOE CARR Hokianga
read it, or don’t understand it, or continue to say what they know to be untrue.
Robyn Jackson (Point missed, letters February 20) says that Robin Lieffering “fails to understand the anxiety being felt by those in the disabled community about this legislation,” and recommends that Lieffering looks up the case of tetraplegic model Claire Freeman. It is not Lieffering who “fails to understand,” but Ms Jackson, since disability is explicitly excluded by the Act.
Furthermore, she invokes the case of Kylee Black, who has a terminal genetic disorder but is opposed to the End of Life Choice Act. It’s not clear how Ms Jackson thinks Black’s opposition to assisted dying strengthens her case, as Black presumably would not choose voluntary assisted dying. So what is her point?
Ms Jackson then brings in Disability Commissioner Paula Tesoriero, who “points out there is no bright line between disability and terminal illness.” This is true, but the fact remains
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