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We need emergency setups to be able to step in and help when water is cut off, power also and so on. Not stadiums, not fancy arrangements in central cities for the benefit of the comfortably off who can look down on we lower orders, as we puddle around in muck and misery.
New Zealand local council 2:15 pm today (I presume Friday 30/5)
Kaipara Council cuts water to some properties as water levels reach critical
@felixjwalton felix.walton@rnz.co.nz
…The Kaipara District Council has cut water to some properties as Dargaville’s dwindling water supply reaches critical levels.
Multiple water main breaks had brought Dargaville’s reservoirs below 10 percent capacity, prompting the council to shut off booster pumps at the treatment plant.
That has reduced the water pressure at some properties, and cut the supply at others.
A spokesperson for the Kaipara District Council explained the reservoirs could hold around three days worth of treated water, but the damaged lines meant more water was going out than in.
They also confirmed the remaining water supply was safe to drink
In an update later on Friday, the council said two of the four breaks have been repaired, with the others to be completed by about 3pm.
After that, they said the mainlines will need to refill over the next hour-and-a-half with hopes to get water running again by the end of the working day…./i
Efficiency is what we were supposed to get with privatisation and government being run on business lines. But business has the chimera* of government rules to keep it in trim and provide a level playing field. Now we have the worst of both systems. So I speet on you, you silly k-nights of the round table, with my best French or English taunting!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/562593/couple-owes-20-000-working-for-families-debt-through-no-fault-of-our-own
P.. R…says he and his wife owe about $18,000 to $20,000 in Working for Families debt, despite always doing their best to ensure that they supplied the correct details about their income and circumstances.
“We’ve always stayed up-to-date with my salary and what we received from them and updated my salary every time it went up and down,” Ruka said.
“What were receiving was what they assured us we were entitled to. But then we got a massive bill saying they had overpaid us.”
“I think the really frustrating part is that it’s through no fault of our own. We owe a substantial amount of money. Now they’re taking $350 a fortnight out of our bank account,” Ruka said.
“We’ve gone back and forth and shown them our expenses, that we actually can’t afford the amount they’re taking. We’ve shown them our bills, our mortgage – they told us that they can’t keep taking money if we can’t afford it but we can’t.”..
* chimera
1. (in Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail.
any mythical animal formed from parts of various animals.
2. a thing which is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve.
Now youngsters, we have learned a number of important things by reading that. What effect will it have on your behaviour, your thinking and actions towards a fairer treatment of all within a prosperous society?
(One without chimeras please.)
Hey Alan Allach is your eddication post closed? There must be more than 20 people with thoughts.
How about more from within the fold?
An extract from a NZ Geographic item about the use of a piece of land with fragile environment. We ordinary folks don’t understand the finer details of using our land and often just plough through where it suits us to go. (Mountain bike tracks for instance, opening up the top growth to erosion from rain and the utimate loss of much topsoil to rivers and the track itself. Just so machine mad kids and adults can do flips in the air and challenge gravity. Same as car motivation just on bikes.)
By James Frankham Publisher – The Weekender Newsletter May.30/25
…Naomi Arnold’s new book Northbound, which starts by describing an existential battle with the mud of Longwood Forest—see the story below.Yesterday we received a response from Graeme Appleby, Club Captain of the Southland Tramping and Outdoor Recreation Club, reflecting that Te Araroa should never have been routed through such an environmentally sensitive area.
“The Longwood Forest is a rain forest area with very peaty and fragile soils,” wrote Graeme. “The region has a high rainfall and lots of low cloud. People move off the track to avoid the mud and this in turn, causes further damage to this fragile area of the Longwoods.”
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also –
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Are you under 25? You enter Photographer of the Year free.
To make Photographer of the Year more accessible for youth, we removed the $25 entry fee for photographers under the age of 25 (as at September 30 this year). Clicking the young photographer checkbox in the entry form does two things: It makes your entry free, and it puts you in contention for the Genesis Young Photographer of the Year award…
Sad about Professor Phil Bagshaw’s son and the lack of interest and factual information given about this to this man with higher values than those of the PTB. It seems we are a sleazy little country masquerading under a pink cloud of redacted information, fluffy sentiment or disparaging propaganda – whichever is best suited to the situation.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/562688/father-of-kiwi-killed-in-ukraine-says-government-offered-virtually-nothing-in-support
…”We got some support from the UK government. We got virtually nothing from the New Zealand government,” Phil Bagshaw told Midday Report.
“Both my wife and I hope the New Zealand government is more supportive of this young man’s family then they were of us.”
New Zealand aid worker Andrew Bagshaw, 47, was killed in eastern Ukraine in January 2023, alongside fellow British volunteer Christopher Parry. The pair were killed while trying to rescue a civilian from the Soledar region.
On Thursday, reports emerged that 26-year-old Shan-Le Kearns was killed in Ukraine.
…Prof Phil Bagshaw, who founded the Canterbury Charity Hospital, said at the time of his son’s death, his family received lots of “confusing” and “very distressing” information.
“We hoped we’d get some good information from the New Zealand government but what we got was incorrect and unhelpful, I’m afraid,” he said.
“We were told Andrew was killed accidentally by an artillery shell, when in fact, that clearly was not true. In fact, we got more information from his friends in Ukraine who did know what had happened to him.”…
He urges Kearns’ family to reach out to the team of people Kearns worked with, as they will be a reliable source of information.
Prof Phil Bagshaw expressed his deep sympathies to Kearns’ family…
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