Veteran taxpayer requires retention of service
Though involved for a while that the cost-cutters presently in energy would seize on our fantastic mobility taxi fares, I’ve not introduced it to note.
Nevertheless right now’s article “Onerous resolution coming quickly” (ODT 10.12.25) confirms my fears.
I’m in my mid-90s. These mobility fares are a necessity to reside independently, travelling cheaply to Moana Pool to maintain match, to supermarkets with the intention to see what I’m shopping for, to nurseries for backyard provides wanted by my raised backyard beds, for infrequent espresso out with associates, for stitching supplies and many others.
My suspicion is that our current authorities members, in demanding common cost-cutting, do not know in any way of the lives of others many not as fortunate as I.
Household or associates take me to conferences, Dunedin Symphony Orchestra live shows and many others however I want to not burden them additional of their busy lives.
I’m so grateful for the above but in addition for the taxi service whose variety drivers put groceries or procuring inside my door on return.
I remind the Otago Regional Council that I started paying charges in 1953.
I remind the federal government that I used to be in paid work till practically 80, and that having the ability to reside independently with no residence nursing, rest-home or hospital care saves the well being finances vastly.
Retention of the mobility taxi service is important.
Heather Grimwood
Dunedin
Quick meals taxes
Is it now time to tax grocery store junk meals? The analysis is there to help this conclusion. Our households are consuming poorly, as a result of well being complete meals are too costly, whereas junk meals like processed pizza, fried bites and many others are low cost.
Take the tax and use it to decrease the price of good greens and meat. Higher meals high quality, helps enhance well being outcomes, lowering long-term impacts on healthcare and taxation value.
Brett Smith
Waikouaiti
Free of shackles
About time. The modifications to the Useful resource Administration Act will enable taxpayers to take care of their very own timber thereby permitting town council to focus on caring for the general public timber.
On the final listening to of a ratepayer desirous to take away a big gum tree on their Chain Hills Rd property they, on their very own, had been confronted by 9 council bureaucrats. The applicant was additionally supported by the Shield Non-public Property of Bushes Society.
It’s hoped the RMA modifications will imply the council will take care of public timber whereas the ratepayer is not shackled by the heritage tree obligations beneath the Act. Such a change may even save town council appreciable prices.
Jim Moffat
Caversham
[Jim Moffat is secretary of the Protect Private Property of Trees Society.]
View disputed
Claire Fraser’s report on Waimate’s White Horse Monument. (ODT 6.12.2025) is facile and overblown .
The views from the three strategically positioned platforms are magnificent, the data boards among the many greatest I’ve seen and the Māori historical past of the realm fantastically offered.
Fortunately, the relative problem in getting there makes unviable that ubiquitous scourge, the espresso bar.
Kevin Foley
Timaru
Heroes to be discovered contained in the day by day newspaper
The place would possibly you discover society’s heroes pictured within the newspapers of democracies the world over? You’ll first see them within the courtroom information, whereas the legislation ties itself in knots defending the indefensible, as a result of it’s the norm.
Bruce Mahalski and his lawyer Rhona Daysh are two such heroes. They’ve finished nothing greater than inform the reality, in a peaceable method, as is their proper. “It is a Local weather Emergency” will not be a protest slogan, it is a reality universally acknowledged by all who nonetheless subscribe to a fact-based actuality, together with the establishments which can be prosecuting this case.
Justice, I regarded it up within the dictionary, is a few real respect for folks — which Bruce and Rhona show abundantly.
Your paper has very lately printed one other story about local weather change which states our current authorities has chosen a coverage path which can lead us to a 4°C world. Johan Rockstrom, the world-renowned local weather scientist, warns its 8 billion current human inhabitants, “it’s troublesome to see how we might accommodate 1 billion” at this temperature.
But the architects of this disaster stay comfortably on the entrance pages of our newspapers.
Deborah Robb
Clyde
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