Is the Land Information Minister Chris Penk bi-sexual?
I pose the question given the opening line in Stuff’s The Post ascribing him in the fashionable plural, normally in brackets, such as (he, him, it) and the like but in this case, specifically “Land Information Minister Chris Penk have declined the proposal to rename “Petone”, “Pito-one”.
The more likely explanation is Stuff incompetence arising from financial pressure and their lack of proof-readers.
This “Pito-one” name-change crap on the most trivial grounds, drew the support of the local wets, including the current Hutt mayor who’s positively drowning. His previous career was as a government clerk.
Anyway, full credit to the Minister for his pragmatism in ignoring the pressure to fall into line with this totally unnecessary change.
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A good laugh to round out the year thanks Sir Bob
So TrueSir Bob
Born in Petone, lived, and grew up with what would now call the real people,
Shame on those Wok minded parasites to try and destroy such a name place, full of in my memories as one people enjoying the basics of life.
I’m waiting for the day that a first nation person starts agitating for the silent ‘h’ to be, ahem, restored to W(h)Ellington.
Spent my formative years growing up in Petone. When describing a working class suburb, Petone was “the real deal.”
General Motors, Unilever, W.D and H.O. Wills Tobacco Company, Todd Motors and the iconic Gear Meat Company to name but a few. Who could forget the succulent scent of death wafting across the town when the offal was processed. Or the aroma of coal gas rising out of the ground as local council workers armed with pick and shovels dug holes in the road to service underground pipes and the only cones around were worn at Wilford school by dumb kids like me .
1950’s Petone had three movie theatres, the Grand, the State and the Princess. Saturday afternoon flicks were the reward for a week well lived..
Petone had many undeveloped area’s which were adventure playgrounds for us kids. From swamps to vast plantations of gorse which we tunneled through to build forts. To the mouth of the Hutt river which had a large number of medium sized industrial enterprises manufacturing products of the day and discharging their waste directly into the river to wash into the harbour. We never swam down that end of the beach.
Went back to see the old homestead in William Street which my father had built out of reinforced concrete complete with a bomb shelter, but it was no more. In its place were a dozen town houses.
Petone, I remember the time when…………………….
Fashionable foolishness is right, opportunities taken by a certain type of white person desperate to display their “more Maori than Maori” liberal smugness. Similar to some on the radio, RNZ especially, who along with their similarly employed counterparts get that self re-assurance by being in the tiny percentage who cannot call the country and its main centres by the same names that 99.8% of the population use on a daily basis
No further requirement for proof readers. Title cancelled post 2017 election.
Apparently only recently considering employing poof readers due to the exponential increase
in Freudian slippage, occuring first ‘draught’ ! … ( well… only had the 5 this morning; … nearly holiday time anyway !
Go figure eh ?
These local wets are unlikely to be property owners, or for that matter ratepayers….
For if they were, they would understand their ideology for change comes at a cost. And not by coincidence no cost to them…
May this current government give us a new year full of joy, as nothing would please me more than the majority of policy analysists being made redundant. They are the bane of small and medium size business owners, who are bogged down in needless bureaucracy to keep these same policy makers and their bosses in jobs…
Saw a huge sign at the local – First line, HAPPY 2nd, NEW YEAR 3rd The From 4th HOMESTEAD
I agree Sir Bob, this was political wokeness! Happy New Year!
described as ‘saurated irony’
description of the decade … latter
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/it-s-time-for-the-greens-to-grow-up-swarbrick/ar-AA1x3pJF?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=76b39cabd4894a6aa966a9f8b634bf97&ei=7#comments&commentId=71e39ef6-f3d5-4a33-8b92-f7394fe5be0f
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