Every argument hurled against the Thames-Coromandel District Council is irrelevant beside the one over-riding point: getting better local government.
All the evidence and all the contacts with it show that with the TCDC we have better local government than we could ever get with Auckland. The fundamental reason for that is understanding, which is always the most important thing in any relationship. A city will never understand us. It cannot. The peninsula does.
Weighed against better local government all the nay-saying headings combined are only a feather in the scales--such as the distance that people would have to travel if they wanted to attend a council meeting, the 1000 people who go to work or school in Auckland, the number of ferries to Auckland compared with the number to the peninsular, etc., etc., etc.
Good local government trumps the lot.
Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Waiheke from the west (the end nearest Auckland)
About Me
- Nobilangelo
- My Christian name is pronounced 'noble-arn-jillo' (i.e., both o's are long, so the first two syllables rhyme with 'noble' not 'hobble'--yes, I know that's obvious, because there's only one 'b' between the 'o' and the 'i', but some people seem to see two b's, hence the English lesson). My surname is pronounced kerra-marliss. I was born, bred and educated in New Zealand, except for an international systems-engineer's course in San Antonio, Texas. I am born-again Christian, a thinker with a very practical turn of mind, a scientist with a particular interest in planet-friendly energy and neuroscience, an engineer (mechanical, industrial and IT systems), an inventor, a Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a writer and poet, a naturist, a designer in different fields, an arranger and composer of symphonic music, a multi-award-winning IT journalist, a photographer, and a practitioner at various times in other hands-on fields including building, metalwork, woodwork, stained-glass and landscaping.