Sewage before art - In
need of more listeners
– The Whangarei Report – 15 January 2009 PS
In
need of more listeners
In
The Whangarei Report, January 8, 2009 M Johnston refers to an article in the
Listener regarding ‘popularity of the Hundertwasser
Museum in Vienna’ and the number of people it attracts.
He
or she, was lucky enough to visit there last August, criticises the Whangarei Report’s scathing article as
being ‘small town thinking’ and that the people of Whangarei have a wonderful
opportunity to have such a museum at the Town Basin.
I
would have to agree if it were not for one or more things.
My
major issue is, and there certainly appears to be more people in this town in
support of, getting our sewage problems fixed before building a another
museum (yes we already have one).
Looking around and listening to other people’s opinions, our council
does really well in most areas however there are other, council owned, services
that could certainly have some money spent on them for very necessary
upgrades.
I
wonder if Vienna is a place that has more visitors to it? Is there a sewage problem like ours and people
demanding something else for the place they live in? M Johnson, I admire your motives for your
letter and your willingness to voice your opinion as you obviously care about
Whangarei. And sure there are places we
can all admire while on holiday and hope to be like but there are also those we
hope we never get like. In reality we
have to work with what we have got and right now we have some problems,
involving core services, that can impact on people’s
health. Myself, and I know many others
want these fixed first.
On
writing this letter I realise that our holiday must
be over, Hoorah!
Pat
Slater
Maunu