We can solve this WCC
Took these pictures on one walk this week - 5 disposable masks just dropped on the road and footpaths along Cashmere Ave and Burma Rd area. Yep, totally agree that people should simply not drop them, but also firmly believe that Council and Metlink etc should support this by installing bins at every bus stop. Train stations have them already, but bus stops don't. As a litter-picker-upper I can also confirm that drink boxes and cans, and snack and takeaway wrappers are more densely discarded near bus stops and in gutters on main routes.
So WCC, please can we respond, adapt and roll with this changed world we live in - and install rubbish bins (even a recycling option if we were going to be truly innovative...) at bus stops all across Wellington? We can support and encourage people to be responsible (dog walkers included probably!) and clean up our roads and neighborhoods at the same time. Simple really.


Poll: Is your nearest emergency department up to scratch?
Concerns have been raised about Nelson Hospital with complaints of lack of staffing and excessive wait times. Do you have confidence in your local emergency department?

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34.1% Yes, it serves us well
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65.2% No, I have concerns
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0.7% Other - I'll share below

Unexplained death
Police are continuing to investigate an unexplained death in Northland, Wellington yesterday.
The investigation team have been conducting enquiries door-to-door in the Northland area and speaking to witnesses and people known to the victim.
A scene guard will remain in place at the property over the coming days.
Members of the Northland community can expect to see a continued Police presence in the area while enquiries into the circumstances of the death continue.
If you have any information that could assist Police, please contact us via 105, either over the phone or online.
Please reference file number 250401/4530.


Auditions for Home, I'm Darling
We've secured the rights to Laura Wade's brilliant Home, I'm Darling and are looking for a strong cast of four women and two men. This highly entertaining, award-winning British comedy, first staged in 2018, has only recently been released for non-professional performance, after wowing audiences in the UK and Australia.
Have you heard your parents or grandparents talk about ‘in my day...’ and you’ve thought how wonderful it must have been to live in that era? Home, I’m Darling is a play about taking the opportunity to step aside from the millennium life and swap it for a 1950s life before McDonald’s, pizza deliveries and supermarkets. What could possibly go wrong?
Find out more at kat-theatre.org.nz...
