6 LISTENER NOVEMBER 5 2016
LETTERS
PHIL PARKER
“The All Blacks ran in nine
tries, with TJ Perenara, in
for Aaron Smith after he
was dropped for meeting
a woman in a toilet cubicle,
scoring twice.” – BBC website“Aaron Smith’s toilet cubicle
shag was the best sex of TJ
Perenara’s life.” – NZ Herald
travel editor Winston Aldworth
on Twitter“Last week, Amazon, CNN,
and Twitter were all down.
It’s a chilling day that will
go down in history as
“Productive Friday.” – US talk-
show host Conan O’Brien“I pledge to accept the
result at Eden Park this
evening.” – comedian James
Elliott on Twitter before the All
Blacks-Wallabies game“Money doesn’t talk, it
swears.” – Bob Dylan“The diference between
iction and reality? Fiction
has to make sense.” – Tom
Clancy“To achieve great things,
two things are needed: a
plan, and not quite enough
time.” – Leonard Bernstein“Samsung announced
recently that people who
turn in their recalled Galaxy
Note 7 phones will be
eligible for a free Note 8
next year when it debuts.
Said customers, ‘I’m not
falling for it. I’ve been burnt
by Samsung before.’” – US
talk-show host Seth Meyers“Getting excited about
voting for Hillary is like
getting excited about
taking your car in for an
oil change. It’s not fun, but
the alternative is your car
bursting into lames.” –
British comedian James CordenQuips&
Quotes
on their homes. Although I
understand that the police
officers concerned have to
obey orders, one would think
they would be fully committed
investigating murders, rapes,
child abuse, wife beatings,
drug dealing and burglaries.
If they have time to harass
the sick, elderly and possibly
terminally ill, who are doing
no harm to others, do we
really need another 400, 1000
or 1800 officers (depending on
who is chasing our vote)?
This is not the New Zealand
I was born into 85 years ago. Is
it becoming a police state?
For the record, I am not an
Exit member but am seriously
concerned by these events.
Margaret Wignall
(Devonport, Auckland)EARLY EXPOSURE TO BOOKS
Jenny Gill should count herself
lucky (Shelf Life, October 22).
I was exposed to the School
Journal when I was at school in
the 1950s and 60s, but it was
only when I was at university
in the 60s and early 70s that
I first read something that I
have always remembered as
representing my childhood.
It was the longish short
story The Reservoir by Janet
Frame, and like Gill’s recol-
lections, it had kids enjoyingA reader thinks buses
should no longer be tied to the
Devonport ferry.
North Shore Times, 13/9/Keep clam and carry on. That’s
the All Blacks mantra this week.
Taranaki Daily News, 9/9/More farmers breed privately
Farmers Weekly, 5/9/A goal-setter who enjoys noth-
ing more than a challenge.
Real estate flyer, August 2016Heaps gave keys to the
property to boarders withoutthe landlord’s permission,
including “an aggressive dog
and a man with tattoos on his
face” that Phoenix got police to
remove ...
Press, 9/9/Capitalise on the opportun-
ity to turn this property into
your dream family home with
room inside and outside for the
children, pets and in-laws!
Herald Homes, 3/8/Children could lap their arms
until they had generated
enough hydro-electricity.
Waikato Times, 17/8/Life in New Zealand
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Auckland 1141. Picture files only can be emailed to: [email protected]who signed. Williams, who
had attended numerous hui,
knew that the phrase “he iwi
tahi tatou” was often used to
signal that those gathered had
reached agreement, just as a
group today might say “we are
of one mind on this”.
Used in that way, the phrase
is a cultural idiom with a quite
specific meaning – something
like “those of us in attendance
have agreed on this matter”.
That’s it – not an enduring
endorsement of equal politicalrights, just a recognition that
Te Tiriti had been offered,
debated and some of those
present, like Hobson, had
agreed to sign it.
Raymond Nairn
(Mt Eden, Auckland)EXIT IN THE NEWS
I was outraged by a news bul-
letin on October 18 reporting
that a member of Exit had
been arrested and another had
had items confiscated after
search warrants were executed“I loved that book. Once I picked it up I just couldn’t put it down!”
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