This will be presented to the Council Meeting scheduled for 29 July. We encourage readers to sign and so tell the council management — Mr Maxwell in particular — that their behaviour on this issue has been deplorable.

It is yet another council service reduction for Waikanae people while Rates go up, it forces them to drive several extra km to the next facility in Otaihanga and thus makes a mockery of the council’s declaration that it is environmentally friendly. Link

–Geoffrey, Eva and Roger, editors