Posts by Hilary Stace
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Caycos, it was that close in Ohariu, 2008. Charles only just over 1000 votes behind Peter D and the Green candidate got over 2500 votes. Ohariu did well in MPs though with 4 representatives now.
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Someone has probably already posted this list - Matt McCarten's suggestions for Auckland city voting.
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Great work Ross. We call ourselves the Owners of Wellington Libraries (OWL) and have active (as required) for about 15 years fighting - first - that 1990s fashion for Business Process Re-engineering in the WCC, which did not understand that concept of public good that libraries provide, and wanted every council activity to be a narrowly defined economic market place. We fought for years to keep the mobile library but eventually lost that battle. Surveying all the candidates with a simple questionnaire has been very effective this election and we got an almost 100% response. Can't claim any credit for it as my friend Marie did the work. More info on our Facebook page.
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Further back than the New Zealand Company (to pre-contact times?) and then showing how much chaos the NZ Company caused.
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Do you think they will commemorate more than the pakeha history?
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Remembering about the New Yorkers reminded me of that moment that some children have when they suddenly realise they can read. The newly borrowed New Yorker was my mother's treat Sunday morning read in bed, while my father brought her a cup of tea. Whatever child was the youngest at the time would inevitably join her. It was while puzzling over the line-drawn cartoons in the New Yorker she was reading that I suddenly realised I could read the words, although the humorous meaning was completely incomprehensible.
I read them for years and never got them. Must be like alcohol, you need to be grown up to appreciate the taste.
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I live in a book lined house. They remind me of my whakapapa. Some go back several generations, such as some 19th century recipe books and bibles, and then the mid 20th century NZ literary collection my parents built up such as the almost complete run of Landfalls in one of the bedrooms over the beds (that I should earthquake-proof somehow). Then there are collections of children's books, and texts from various courses over the decades, and most recently my bookshelf on autism (which are the only books I have actually bought for years). Then there are boxes in the garage requiring sorting before going to the Downtown Community Ministry book fair one day. My fathers' collection of green Penguins went there after he died.
I feel very lucky to have this heritage. On Saturday mornings when I was a child, the family went off to our local branch library to look, see, hear and touch and finally decide on our three-book quota for the week. My mother borrowed tissue paper New Statesmans and glossy New Yorkers.
This local body election a few off us have got together to campaign to keep these local branches, precious civic spaces, which always seem to be under threat these days.
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My understanding is that all votes go into one big computer which does the calculations and spits out the results. Which means that hopefully the programmer read and understood the law.
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Rich, re STV (we have it for mayor and wards here). Vote positively for the candidates you like (in order of preference). Do not rank [ie leave blank space beside] the ones you don't want elected because even a low rank might give them some clout in the complicated weighting system. You don't need to do the full quota. For example, in our ward we can vote for three but I will probably only vote for one person and give them the No 1 ranking.
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I hope so too. Let us know if you hear of any.