Whanganui Chronicle
  • Whanganui Chronicle home
  • Latest news
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Property
  • 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

  • Taranaki
  • National Park
  • Whakapapa
  • Ohakune
  • Raetihi
  • Taihape
  • Marton
  • Feilding
  • Palmerston North

Media

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

Weather

  • New Plymouth
  • Whanganui
  • Palmertson North
  • Levin

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 / Whanganui Chronicle

Your views: Something good may come from election shambles

Whanganui Chronicle
26 Sep, 2017 03:00 AM2 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

NZ First leader Winston Peters

NZ First leader Winston Peters

Saturday's MMP election shambles has turned up a man who will decide who will make up the government for the next three years and the direction it will take.

Goodness me, he couldn't even win his own seat!

Monday's Chronicle published Winston Peters' wish list. I am not a WP fan nor a NZ First follower, however, all of the points in his list are agreeable to me, especially if the two referendums mentioned are binding and to be enacted within this term.

If National were to carry on with their current economic policies, make ; make Winston Peters the deputy prime minister and adopt all of his list and they would be in power for the next three or four terms.

BARRIE MOAR, Marton

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Sickly rivers

D T S Grace is obviously a very elderly person, so he/she must remember that until recent times our rivers were our sewers.

Yet people swam and fished in the sewers and obviously didn't get sick because we have not heard them tell us of the sicknesses - they keep saying the rivers were healthy.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

It makes you think their immune systems must have been stimulated, something that is not happening now - obvious by the amount of sickness that seems to be about.

G R SCOWN, Whanganui

Divine design

G R Scown again espouses his atheistic religion while dismissing belief in a creator as superstition.

Anyone who studies the incredible complexity and variety of life on our planet cannot fail to be awed by the amazing cleverness of design and delicate balance in the natural world.

The beauty and order of natural laws and the natural environment point to the One who made them and sustains them.

Morality is anathema to atheistic thinking which demands a chance, random, survival of the fittest mentality. If people are simply a product of random processes and chemical reactions, there is no benefit in considering the needs of others, saving rather than taking life, or being faithful to one's spouse.

G R Scown is a product of God's imagination, loved by God and with a purpose beyond his own narrow understanding. I pray that he may come to know his Maker, before he has to face Him.

MANDY DONNE-LEE, Aramoho

Save

    Share this article

Latest from Whanganui Chronicle

Whanganui Chronicle

RSA 'alive and well' despite premises closure

11 Jul 06:00 PM
Whanganui Chronicle

‘Everyone went silent’: Whanganui Youth MP speaks in Parliament

11 Jul 05:00 PM
Whanganui Chronicle

Major Joanna Margaret Paul exhibition opens

11 Jul 05:00 PM

From early mornings to easy living

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Whanganui Chronicle

RSA 'alive and well' despite premises closure

RSA 'alive and well' despite premises closure

11 Jul 06:00 PM

Former members are 'more than welcome' to return, RSA Welfare Trust president says.

‘Everyone went silent’: Whanganui Youth MP speaks in Parliament

‘Everyone went silent’: Whanganui Youth MP speaks in Parliament

11 Jul 05:00 PM
Shelley Loader: How we can all get a share of the apples

Shelley Loader: How we can all get a share of the apples

11 Jul 05:00 PM
Major Joanna Margaret Paul exhibition opens

Major Joanna Margaret Paul exhibition opens

11 Jul 05:00 PM
Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky
sponsored

Solar bat monitors uncover secrets of Auckland’s night sky

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
  • Whanganui Chronicle e-edition
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Whanganui Chronicle
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • 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