Movies in Mapua
Hi, all regular Cinema goers, and to any new people who think they might like to go to the movies which we’ve been showing for the last 6+ years
This time, we plan to show the movie "Secondhand Lions" on Sunday, 18th September at 6.30 pm in the Mapua Community Hall. Bring your own chair and drinks etc if you wish.
Some of us go to the Sprig & Fern for a meal at around 5pm, and there will be a table reserved for any who would like to join us.
We have some excellent movies planned for the rest of the cold season, So, we look forward to seeing you there.
All income from this event will go towards the Mapua Community Hall!
Cheers,
Reinhard & Angelika
The movie mogul says:
"Secondhand Lions " is one of those sleeper movies you sometimes hear about. Due to the wonderful script, direction and acting by all the principals, this one unfolds like a rose in bloom.Before you know it, the movie has you totally in its grasp and the characters become three dimensional as their battles battles become yours as well.The plot is simple: A teenage boy is dumped on his crusty great-uncles by his scheming mother who wants the kid to find where the uncles may have hidden their reputably stolen fortune. The uncles, played by Michael Caine and Robert Duvall, work well together as brothers who are slow to warm up to their rather precious nephew. Eventually the layers begin to peel away as the boy learns about the earlier thrilling adventures of the uncles and begins to see them as potential role models.
But then, are their stories true? Should the boy return to his mother? Should the uncles fight to keep him around? This movie made us lough and cry. It touches on every aspect of growing old. It addresses the right way to live and the wrong way. A perfect movie for MAPUANS.
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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 Seymour’s party policies but what is astounding is Labour’s 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) ‘forgotten’ 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:
• Telecom (1990)
• New Zealand Steel (1987)
• PostBank (1988)
Labour may well have built state houses for working people (not just beneficiaries like Ardern’s government) in the 1930’s 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.
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
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