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Big girls need big diamonds.
--Elizabeth Taylor
family ticket for 6 students from the Dargaville Intermediate School. That was about 13th December. That would
have cost $285.00. I explained that these children were from low income families. No answer so I sent another
email.
During the school holidays. Scott emailed me to say that he had bought this question up at the last meeting and
was waiting for a reply. Finally he sent an email to tell me to go ahead and buy the ticket and he would take the
brunt of the result. Ten minutes later I got another email from Scott to say that the Management team has said
no that I couldn’t buy a ticket for these children. I was terribly disappointed and so were the children concerned. I
asked one of the management team why they had said no to the ticket and she said that if they let me buy a family
ticket then everyone will want one.
Hello I could see the dollars flitting away. I asked another member of the team weeks later and he said that I will
not be allowed to buy a family ticket for these children as they come from different families. Family/whanau same
thing, they are all related to each other. He said that they would have to make a special ticket to accommodate
these children.
It is now the 21st February and still no answer. I would have bought a ticket for all my three schools. That is
$285.00 times three. Can we afford to discriminate against certain members of our community? I think not!! Also
when is the Pool management committee going to advertise when meetings are being held, so that members of
the community can attend? Transparency is a good thing.
Katherine Taylor.
PS I asked what constitutes a family and the lifeguard said a mother father and two children. This is not the real
world?
Katherine Taylor
Just a thought.
It would be interesting to see how much the tourist is paying per day for the Campervans. As from what I have
heard it is no wonder they don’t have much left over for anything else. The other day we had a Maui camper van
in with a couple from Switzerland “Nice New Big” Maui. They went down the beach for a long walk (our beach is
112kms long) they came back in a panic, they lost their keys. I said don’t panic you are in NZ it will be ok.
About 8 hours later 9.30pm a set of keys arrive driven 3 hours up from Auckland. IT IS GOING TO COST THEM
OVER $1,000. Mercedes campervans coming from Germany only have 2 sets of keys apparently and they are
very electronic and cannot be duplicated. Their Bond for the Maui was $5000 or $7000 I believe.
I and others were so embarrassed as a kiwi that these costs where Soo high. The result was that our local
Wonderful restaurant Funky Fish shouted them a lovely meal and drinks( as everything they owned was in the
camper)we had already given them a cabin and drinks they refused to borrow some cash from us.
They left Baylys Beach which was their last nite in NZ very happy and very grateful. Happy ending and a lesson
learnt. Maui key cost heaps so don’t lose them.
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