Meet the Candidates event
Hi Neighbours
The Nelson Mail and the Nelson Tasman Chamber of Commerce are co-hosting a Meet the Candidates evening for the Richmond Ward and Mayoral candidates for the upcoming local body elections.
The event is at the Richmond Town Hall on Wednesday, September 11 from 6.30pm-8pm. Each candidate will be invited to speak for two minutes and then there will be some questions collated in advance from members of the public.
If you would like to ask a question, please email mailbox@nelsonmail.co.nz with Candidate Question in the subject line or reply to this post. Please bear in mind we may not have time to ask all questions but we will accommodate as many as we can.
See you there!
Poll: If we want to reduce speeding, what do you think actually changes driver behaviour? ๐ป๐จ๐
In the Post's article on speeding penalties, the question is asked whether speeding fines are truly about road safety, or are they just a way to boost revenue for the Crown?
What do you think? Should speeding motorists receive speeding fines or demerit points?
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35.5% The sting of a fine (Money talks!)
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64.5% The threat of demerit points (Nobody wants to lose their license!)
๐ฟ n8tidy โ Week #15 Garden Clean-Up Giveaway!
Comment โIโm in!โ to enter โ Winner drawn Friday
Hi neighbours! ๐
Welcome to Week #15 of our community giveaway!
One lucky neighbour will win 1 hour of free gardening/yard clean-up from n8tidy this week.
How to participate
๐ฌ Comment โIโm in!โ below to enter
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Entries close Friday
๐ฒ Draw will take place Friday evening
5๏ธโฃ Minimum 5 participants required
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Current n8tidy customers cannot participate
๐ You can join again every week!
What you can use your free hour for
- Weed removal
- Edging & trimming
- Light pruning
- Lawn mowing/Garden tidy-up
No green waste collection
The winner will be contacted directly to arrange their free clean-up hour.
Good luck everyone โ and thanks for supporting local! ๐ฟ๐
Fred - n8tidy
www.n8tidy.co.nz...
Labour Party Hypocrisy
Well, here we go again. More Labour Party hypocrisy.
Just as Labour MP Rachel Boyack has cried crocodile tears over National not building the promised new Nelson hospital when Labour had promised (showing both how little a Labour promise is worth and the hypocrisy of their tears) to get the hospital started before their term ended we now have Deputy Prime Minister Seymour calling for the Air New Zealand shares owned by the government to be sold.
Now that is to be expected given Seymourโs party policies but what is astounding is Labourโs finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds comments in response.
She tells us Air New Zealand is critical national infrastructure and the Government should not be selling its shares.
Very good, but wait. Labour has clearly (and conveniently) โforgottenโ which party privatised Air New Zealand.
In 1989, the Labour Government sold Air New Zealand into private ownership. The sale transferred the airline from being a fully state owned national carrier to a privately owned company. The sale was part of a broader wave of Labour privatisations, also including:
โข Telecom (1990)
โข New Zealand Steel (1987)
โข PostBank (1988)
Labour may well have built state houses for working people (not just beneficiaries like Ardernโs government) in the 1930โs but what have they done since? Very, very little other than to ride on that one good thing ever since and, as we are seeing again and again approaching this election, spent most of their time practicing their hypocrisy. Remember the Kiwibuild promise?
If you want truth in politics beware Labour.
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