Mission to improve
To the Mission concert organisers:
Last year I sent a brickbat about the appalling organisation of wine sales at our premier wine country event.
I am glad this year to offer a bouquet for the much improved wine sale system.
Thank you.
But an area still for improvement would be the layout of the internal walkways of the concert area.
Marked-off accessways which ended up dead-ends, and no logical layout that even the security guards with maps could understand, would be easy to improve.
Next time, please signpost the various access "ring roads and "dead-end streets" perhaps naming them after previous successful artists? And also post large letters on the north-south axis and numbers on the east-west axis around the edge of the ground, to enable approximate grid locations (ie D/ 12) to be texted to friends looking to join up.
I found a personal GPS useful but possibly a bit hi-tech for a party crowd!Mark Warren WaipawaBooze banSaturday - the Mission Concert and a great entertainer but I feel so sad for those folk who can only purchase one bottle of wine or four beers at a time.
Why can't people just not drink alcohol if they're going to such a great event to hear a famous singer?
I've never smoked but at least smokers aren't loud, noisy and rude like folk who drink too much.
In fact alcohol can cause violence and accidents whereas smoking doesn't, so just have an alcohol-free concert for a change.
Maybe the Government gets more tax off all the booze sold.
Val King, Cive
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