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	<description>Wanganui City &#038; the Whanganui River – local &#038; national affairs</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Haere ra Whanganui</title>
		<link>http://whanganui.org/2008/06/18/test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan H</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to a total lack of interest in this blog by the good folk of Wanganui, ably assisted my failure to advertise it or to post enough information, I&#8217;m retiring the site.
All existing posts and comments have been copied to my super-blog  
http://mywitsend.co.nz/
Please visit me there and make your views known.
Any future Wanganui posts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The DPB started as a mess</title>
		<link>http://whanganui.org/2008/06/07/the-dpb-started-as-a-mess/</link>
		<comments>http://whanganui.org/2008/06/07/the-dpb-started-as-a-mess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan H</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Wasting your money]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Purposes Benefit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Welfare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[And then it got worse
About a million years ago I was in the navy. Towards the end of my service time in the 1970s the Domestic Purposes Benefit was introduced. One result of that ill-advised legislation - Defence had to build a high-rise accommodation block for Auckland&#8217;s Devonport Naval Base. Just another cost to add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry Merv, they had to go</title>
		<link>http://whanganui.org/2008/04/02/sorry-merv-they-had-to-go/</link>
		<comments>http://whanganui.org/2008/04/02/sorry-merv-they-had-to-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan H</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Environment Wanganui]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Places]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[chainsaw sculpture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[chainsaw sculture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[city heat]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s art and there&#8217;s street sculpture &#8230;
The chainsaw carvings in Victoria Avenue were an eyesore. Good riddance to them. I&#8217;m sure that sculptor Merv is a very nice bloke and I&#8217;m sorry that his feelings were hurt, but his masterpiece was my blot on the landscape.
There&#8217;s a place for chainsaw sculpture but that place isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A dearth of decency</title>
		<link>http://whanganui.org/2008/04/02/a-dearth-of-decency/</link>
		<comments>http://whanganui.org/2008/04/02/a-dearth-of-decency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan H</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Local Body Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[aggression]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[confrontation]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Laws]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A dearth of decency
Michael Laws and offensive people I have known
I recently gave the Red Eye Café a swerve because some inconsiderate idiot had parked precisely dead centre between two car parks leaving no space for my little Freelander. I headed for Oggie&#8217;s Café instead. On the way I spotted a man pushing a beat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A media hatchet job</title>
		<link>http://whanganui.org/2008/03/19/a-media-hatchet-job/</link>
		<comments>http://whanganui.org/2008/03/19/a-media-hatchet-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan H</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Local Body Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wanganui]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wasting your money]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First published in @ My Wits&#8217; End March 12th 2008.
 Roman Hasil isn&#8217;t the chief guilty party in yet another DHB fiasco
Watching the news media hounding Dr Roman Hasil has been disturbing to me.
Anyone who has experienced depression or lived with a victim would have immediately recognised the outward symptoms.
Watching the way TVNZ&#8217;s trusty news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The god complex wins again</title>
		<link>http://whanganui.org/2007/12/17/the-god-complex-wins-again/</link>
		<comments>http://whanganui.org/2007/12/17/the-god-complex-wins-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 01:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan H</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Published today in New Zealand matters:
 As ye sow, so shall ye reap
Our dear leader, Czarina Helen, adopted an aristocratic disdain for anyone who didn&#8217;t toe her line even more quickly than that other political bully Rob Muldoon. For 8 years, through fearsome competence and an enormous capacity for doing everybody else&#8217;s job, she&#8217;s got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rana reckons right</title>
		<link>http://whanganui.org/2007/12/16/rana-reckons-right/</link>
		<comments>http://whanganui.org/2007/12/16/rana-reckons-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 06:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan H</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[National Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, in his River City Press column Rana Reckons, Rana Waitai reckoned that the appointment of Hamish McDoull as Labour candidate for Whanganui was done and dusted.
Right on Rana. Your column is always full of solid common sense and that&#8217;s a refreshing change – the only thing common about common sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My favourite places – Legends restaurant, café and bar</title>
		<link>http://whanganui.org/2007/11/04/my-favourite-places-%e2%80%93-legends-restaurant-cafe-and-bar/</link>
		<comments>http://whanganui.org/2007/11/04/my-favourite-places-%e2%80%93-legends-restaurant-cafe-and-bar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan H</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Places]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I indulged my usual Sunday morning routine today – reading the Sunday Star Times over a cup of coffee or two at Legends.
Their café prices are very competitive (unlike Vincent&#8217;s, just up the road, they don&#8217;t charge me an extra dollar for decaf) and the outlook is superb.
The view from next door at
Tamara Backpackers&#8217; Lodge

Legends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Expectations</title>
		<link>http://whanganui.org/2007/11/01/great-expectations/</link>
		<comments>http://whanganui.org/2007/11/01/great-expectations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan H</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[National Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Published this morning in New Zealand Matters
Mallard Reducks
I live in hope, but I forgot the rules.
Nobody ever got rich underestimating a politician&#8217;s capacity for cynical disregard of the electorate or that electorate&#8217;s ability to forget the politicians&#8217; abuse of their trust.
I&#8217;m not a Labour supporter, mainly because I can&#8217;t abide the Czarina&#8217;s demeanor of superiority, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No great lack of Vision</title>
		<link>http://whanganui.org/2007/10/30/no-great-lack-of-vision/</link>
		<comments>http://whanganui.org/2007/10/30/no-great-lack-of-vision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan H</dc:creator>
		
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Rana Waitai&#8217;s column in last week&#8217;s River City Press was interesting reading. Rana has always seemed to me to be a man with his head screwed on and his down-to-earth observations on his new positions in council and the Hospital Board are a sign of hope that my vote for him wasn&#8217;t wasted.
I was tempted [...]]]></description>
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