For the past 60-plus years the Springfield Golf Club, due to its diligent caretaking and pest-control strategies, has created stable and secure habitats for many native species that have made the trees, streams or wetlands
Letters to the editor: Saving golf course vital to protecting habitat
Graduate or crucify?
After leading his nation to victory in World War II, Winston Churchill was soundly dumped as Prime Minister in 1945.
The war had scarcely ended but, somehow, it seemed the United Kingdom thought the awful price paid for defeating the Third Reich was all down to him.
I see the same thing happening here in New Zealand.
Caught unawares by a pandemic that required a rapid, decisive response, our Prime Minister took a bold initiative to save lives before anything else.
The naysayers already have her in their sights. It seems that, to them, the economic damage the country has endured is down to her ineptitude rather than the threat of Covid-19 decimating our population.
I have never been a Labour supporter but I have to admit, at age 40 and after one term in office, Jacinda Ardern will graduate from her apprenticeship with flying colours.
Or will she be crucified like Winston Churchill?
Ian Young
Papamoa