Tararua District councillor Shirley Hull dressed for the occasion to spread the anti-P message. Photo/Christine McKay
Tararua District councillor Shirley Hull dressed for the occasion to spread the anti-P message. Photo/Christine McKay
It takes a lot for Tararua District councillor Shirley Hull to step outside the council's dress code for their monthly meeting.
But Hull, a member of the Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand, was making a stand against the scourge of meth in our community by wearing jeans and heranti-P T-shirt.
"Doing nothing around drugs in our community isn't good enough.
"I think the group, the anti-P Ministry, is doing a really good job of bringing this issue from the ground to the surface.
"They have been there and it's a great asset to have people like them in our community and any time we can support them the better."
Brendan Warne and Dot Watson are part of the team heading the local drivers and their work on the ground will be what reduces the impact of P in our community.
However, Hull said she was not happy that work on initiatives aimed at improving health services for rural areas through RHAANZ had been halted because of a lack of Government support.
"The Rural Health Alliance has been growing over the last five years and we've been successful in taking issues to a political level.