Letters 13 August 2010
Where have all the daffies gone?
I totally agree with Dilyse Roberts’ letter (6/8) regarding the decline of the daffodils on the Waitapu embankment. When I was a child, I used to bike down to Waitapu and pick bunches of the lovely golden harbingers of spring for my mum.
It really irks me to notice time and again how they are chopped regularly down to ground level. Even the most novice gardener would know that the dying foliage feeds the bulb in readiness for future flowerings.
Along similar lines - I was driving into Collingwood along the estuary frontage recently just after the roadside “choppers” had been through and was horrified to see a fellow in a Sicon ute busily collecting the cut gorse and scrub from the side of the road and throwing it into the Aorere River. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There is the local dump just up the road for goodness sake! Do these people have any brains at all? This mess just ends up swilling around at the back of the Tavern and then getting washed onto the main beach during a flood.
Jill Pomeroy
Multi-purpose facility
Little wonder my peers and I knew nothing of the Vandeskog Study; the questionnaire was only sent to 350 households. A snap poll on the Village Green was conducted on a Saturday morning when we were all at our various sporting activities. Encouraging though that 70% of those surveyed on the Green were in favour of a multi-purpose facility.
In Bjarne’s letter (GBW 6/8) he stated the report does not provide enough evidence in favour of a new facility. Yet in his study he says ”overall the data demonstrates that there is about equally as much support for as opposition to a new facility.” All seems a little inconclusive to me.
This debate is not just about a sports centre but a multi-facility incorporating arts and culture. Lets do it once and do it right.
I strongly recommend attendance at the public meeting at the rugby clubrooms, 7pm on 30 August.
Caroline Jones
Watch found in Parapara
Around 1971 a party of historians found a watch between Drugans Dam and the Johnson United gold mine South East of Collingwood.
Written on the back of the watch was “To Arty, from the N. Z. R. Boys”. Chub Wood, who found the watch, gave it to his wife Elsie who worked at the Takaka Library at the time.
Arty Richardson lived at Puramahoi and did a lot of prospecting and tramping around Golden Bay. He went to the library every Friday. Elsie asked Arty if he had lost a watch and he said that he had - about three years before, but had replaced it. He showed her the replacement. Arty sometimes walked down Grant Road, along the beach to Parapara and back. The photo in The GB Weekly on 23 July could well be the replacement watch.
Paul Sangster
Don’t blame or abuse the debt collector
When you ask or instruct a company/individual to supply you with something or carry out work for you, that company/individual will invoice you. Generally speaking invoices are payable on the 20th of the month following, that does mean the 20th of the next month (sometimes invoices are payable in 7 days).
On the 21st of the following month (or the 8th as the case may be) if payment has not been made, that account becomes overdue. So if you get a letter from me or a phone call, there is no need to fly off the handle and tell me to “shove it up my.....you know what” as I was recently told by someone whose account was overdue. I’m not an ogre, simply call me and we can talk about it politely and work out a payment plan if you are unable to pay all at once.
Louise Amitrano
Golden Bay Collections Ltd
Labyrinth Park
Reports in the previous publications that Solly’s provided four diggers to help re-open the park is not correct. The valuable help of four diggers was supplied by Lifestyle Hire, Kevin Hebberd Motorcycles, Kevin Winter Plumbing and Alliance Plumbing. All were donated free of charge and these diggers were used on different days, and were of great assistance in loading the wheelbarrows for Phil Rawiri and his team of community workers to re-gravel the paths. Obviously these reports were made by persons who were never present whilst work was undertaken to re-open this amazing park.
Special thanks must go to Sollys Freight and the Junction Hotel for their support in this project.
Ross McDonald
