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When remembering former All Black captain Jock Hobbs (March 14), Kiwis should also note that he was no slug during his brief but active career as a lawyer. DAVID UNDERWOOD, Kelburn The euphoric adulation of Jock Hobbs needs tempering. He chaired the Rugby Union when it had its worst financial result, in 2010, and was also a director of finance company Strategic Finance, placed in receivership the same year. The Financial Markets Authority is investigating. More balanced tributes are appropriate. MATT TAYLOR, Island Bay The next time you decide to publish one of M Laurence Withy’s saccharine effusions of self-evidency (Letters, March 12), please ensure the equivalent of an airline vomit bag is in that day’s paper so I can express my reaction appropriately. ALLEN HEATH, Woburn If state-owned power companies can now pay dividends of 18.5 per cent to the Government, would new investors expect the same return? Or would responsible mums and dads anticipate a more reasonable dividend from state assets and insist that the rest be used to lower power prices? FRANK HANSON, Avalon Let me thank Ken Carson for stating the obvious (Letters, March 13). Labour has no mandate to continue the asset-sales debate. The party gave the issue its best shot during the election campaign and lost, overwhelmingly. Amen. JIM YOUNG, Belmont What message were current and former police ministers Anne Tolley (March 3) and Judith Collins trying to convey in being photographed pointing a weapon designed to kill people? HELEN CARVER, Dannevirke