Friday, April 19, 2024

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$272,000 for crossing

Auckland Transport is planning to build a raised zebra crossing on Litten Road outside the Litten Road Shopping Centre. This proposal was put out for public feedback on December 19, 2023. Cockle Bay Residents and...
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Our door is always open

I am writing in response to the Howick Residents and Ratepayers Association letter published in the Howick & Pakuranga Times on April 3, 2024. The Howick Local Board has been busy serving our diverse communities...
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Fishing hooks left by fishers

I was walking on the Farm Cove Walkway with my dog and found a large fish hook with bait attached lying on the grass by the Pakuranga Sailing Club. Presumably it was left behind by...
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Demolition of loved and thriving community garden

The Mangemangeroa Reserve Community Garden has been demolished by Auckland Council for no reason other than a Farming Trust was given permission to take the stockyards away. You may have seen the tall bright orange...
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Church plaque must be corrected

As an Anglican and a Maori, I am disappointed in the Anglican Church of Howick as I have spoken to at least three vicars over the years about the brass memorial plaque in the...
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Illegal dumping at Musick Point

On a recent walk up to Musick Point, we came across a pile of rubbish dumped on the side of the road, a truck load by the volume. Tried reporting it to Auckland Council...
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A stain on our humanity

The ongoing destruction and death in Gaza, the daily raids including damaging infrastructure and violent encroaching of settlements in the West Bank, while the world watches in silence, our peace agencies powerless, is a...
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Parents determine their child’s beliefs

, the problem with RSE and pronoun policies are that they teach ideology as fact: that biological sex is assigned/changeable; that disagreement is hateful/transphobic; that gender distress requires affirmation (social transition, blockers, hormones,...
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When is a stop sign not a stop sign?

Part of my duties while assisting at the Auckland Brit & Euro Classic Car Show was to stand at the Cascades Road exit from Lloyd Elsmore Park. There is a compulsory stop sign there which...
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What goes around…

Auckland Transport lashes out at KiwiRail for trains cancelled by overheated tracks, and Mayor Wayne Brown raged at Auckland Transport for losing the plot with $500,000 raised crossings. Isn’t there a bit of hypocrisy here...
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