Hawkes Bay Today
  • Hawke's Bay Today home
  • Latest news
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • Video
  • Death notices
  • Classifieds

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Residential property listings
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology

Locations

  • Napier
  • Hastings
  • Havelock North
  • Central Hawke's Bay
  • Tararua

Media

  • Video
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

Weather

  • Napier
  • Hastings
  • Dannevirke
  • Gisborne

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Hawkes Bay Today

Middle NZ: Line laundry causing a stir

By Linda Hall
Hawkes Bay Today·
1 Oct, 2019 07:00 PM4 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

    Reminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read.

Some people never hang their washing outside to dry - it goes straight in the dryer. Photo / File

Some people never hang their washing outside to dry - it goes straight in the dryer. Photo / File

It's a funny old world we are living in at the moment.

On the one hand we have teenagers marching for climate change and on the other hand we have a some residents in an Auckland community upset because their neighbours have the audacity to actually hang their washing on the line.

Yep that's right folks — some people in Hobsonville Point are not happy that people are actually hanging their underwear on the line and sacre bleu — they are visible from the road.

Let's start with the marching teens. I say good on them for making some noise about a subject they are passionate about.

People have been doing the exact same thing for generations. Think Vietnam War, the nuclear movement, the Springbok Tour of 1981, abortion laws, the list goes on.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

One of the saddest events, I think, and one that we should be marching about every day, was the March for Moko which followed the death of 3-year-old Moko Rangitoheriri at the hands of two women who were meant to be caring for him.

The young are always going to need our help and as yesterday was International Day of the Older Person it's a timely reminder that the elderly do too.

Which brings me back to the younger generation.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

While it's all very well marching and chanting action is what's needed, you know what?

It would be a fantastic idea if they all went and spoke to someone over the age of 70 and asked them advice on how to improve our environment which is what climate change is all about.

Discover more

School holidays: Here we go again

01 Oct 06:00 PM

Let's hear more on the water projects and less on the leak

01 Oct 05:00 PM

Jon Toogood kicks off North Island tour

01 Oct 05:00 PM

Comment: Why the need for such recycling speed in Napier?

05 Nov 06:00 PM

I bet they would say things like "Don't spend your weekends at shopping malls buying things that only last five minutes. Instead go for a walk in the bush or the beach and if you see rubbish pick it up. Or spend the day planting some vegetables."

I'd like to add walk or bike to school, however our roads are so congested now that I don't blame parents for not wanting their children to bike on the roads or have to cross busy intersections.

One solution would be for parents to walk their children to school, save gym fees. But again these days most parents work and probably drop their children off to school on their way.

Or they live too far away to walk. No more little country schools these days.

Linda Hall
Linda Hall

It is hard but one thing the marchers have done is to make everyone take notice and good for them.

Now back to the laundry.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

I learnt something while writing this column. Some people never hang their washing on the line. Everything goes straight in the dryer.

I'm still trying to get my head around that. I don't even have a dryer. All I can think about when people tell me that is the power bill.

I'll still be hanging my washing on the line until I can't physically do it — then I'll ring my children to come do it — now that's something for them to look forward to.

FOOTNOTE: Right oh, people. Get those local body election voting papers filled in and sent back. Then ring your family and friends and remind them to do the same because at the moment we are not doing very well.

Just 8.39 per cent of Napier voters have returned their voting papers. Central Hawke's Bay is doing the best with 14.09 per cent of ballots returned. In Hastings, 9.17 per cent of papers have been handed in. Data for Wairoa was not available. We need to do better than that — have your say and vote today.

Save

    Share this article

    Reminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read.

Latest from Hawkes Bay Today

Premium
Hawkes Bay Today

End of swimming pool weeds: Family's delight as cyclone-hit home gets green light

04 Jul 06:00 PM
Hawkes Bay Today

On The Up: The paddling club of breast cancer survivors set to represent NZ on world stage

04 Jul 06:00 PM
Hawkes Bay Today

Napier ice swimmer Davey Jones - what I gain when I dive into the chilly depths

04 Jul 06:00 PM

There’s more to Hawai‘i than beaches and buffets – here’s how to see it differently

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Hawkes Bay Today

Premium
End of swimming pool weeds: Family's delight as cyclone-hit home gets green light

End of swimming pool weeds: Family's delight as cyclone-hit home gets green light

04 Jul 06:00 PM

42 Havelock North homes are out of limbo after two-and-a-half years.

On The Up: The paddling club of breast cancer survivors set to represent NZ on world stage

On The Up: The paddling club of breast cancer survivors set to represent NZ on world stage

04 Jul 06:00 PM
Napier ice swimmer Davey Jones - what I gain when I dive into the chilly depths

Napier ice swimmer Davey Jones - what I gain when I dive into the chilly depths

04 Jul 06:00 PM
Premium
Trentham debacle sparks memories of another wrong turn: John Jenkins

Trentham debacle sparks memories of another wrong turn: John Jenkins

04 Jul 06:00 PM
From early mornings to easy living
sponsored

From early mornings to easy living

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Hawke's Bay Today e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Hawke's Bay Today
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • NZME Events
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP