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Christmas Day message
Very nice to receive a gift from a local constituent, very thoughtful wrapping too.
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The small pleasures of life
An update on the front verge. People in Christchurch should have heard about the City Council wanting to rid a traffic island of a very colourful guerilla garden, paid for by the local bookshop owner. In protest, I dug up by grass berm in August and replaced it with wildflowers and bedding plants. Today I…
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The lunatics retain control of the asylum
Spot on Vicky Southworth for ECan – Christchurch South-Ōwhanga Constituency calling it for what is…….begs the question why the labour party councillor voted with the rural, right block to delay for over a year
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Council meeting 591, 27 November “how to flip flop your reasoning in the space of one agenda item”.
We had Council meeting 591 today and I left it feeling a bit like a ‘rock em sock em robot’, having had two attempts at a code of conduct breach levelled at me and seeing two major decisions defy my logic. The first involved an opposite view to a Councillor and the second the use…
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Waimate Water Woes
The Editor I write in relation to the press release from Waimate District Council, 23rd October, regarding the nitrate levels within the Lower Waihao Rural Water Scheme, which are currently elevated at 40mg/l, and ‘with more rain expected this Labour Weekend, the levels may increase further’. It beggars belief that WDC is ‘reviewing denitrification plant solutions’ in…
Greg Byrnes 