
Rant Time
If you are going for a walk, jog or bike ride around sunset, including heading home from work, by one of those methods, please, please, please, for the love of all things precious, stand in front of a mirror, in the dark!
If you can’t see yourself, neither can anyone else!
Do something about it!
I am getting well fed up with all the bloody close calls, because I don’t have night vision eyesight. And being abused for not seeing a shadow in the dark is bloody out of order.
Just because you can ‘see perfectly fine’ doesn’t mean you can be seen. And the same goes for drivers and headlights.
And last but not least, the bike paths between Havers and Hastings are not on the road. They’re shareways, on the other side of the berm. Same for Joll Road. Please use them. They were built specifically for you.

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Crematorium in Havelock North
Crematorium in Havelock North meeting to be held for Havelock North Friends and Neighbours, Monday 14th
April 2025, at 2pm. Place Civic Administration room, floor 0, Hastings District Council offices.
Caleb Sutton Environmental Consents Manager
Dave Bishop team leader environmental Consents/Subdivision
John O’Shaughnessy
Will be present at the meeting
Are you concerned about this and if so, you are invited to
attend a meeting with the department who consented on
this new Crematorium. As residents and ratepayers, we
feel we were never given the opportunity to speak up
about this major decision so now is your chance.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT.
Do not let our beautiful village be ruined of its uniqueness
forever by a bad decision made on our behalf. A more
appropriate decision would be to have it out of a residential area or with appropriate car parking and a place for mourners to congregate.
Marion and Garrie Griffiths