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A reader reckons Auckland City Parking needs to learn to communicate clearly: "For the last week or so there have been very small signs with a cross and an arrow at each end of Jellicoe St in the Viaduct. This is the only indication that something may eventually happen, but no cones, no signs, no notices under wipers. No one knows what they mean or what they are for. Everyone parks (and goes to work) as usual. In fact, if you were driving along looking for a park you would pull into a vacant space in the middle of the street without seeing a sign. This afternoon ACC decides that resealing work is to commence and so engages multiple tow-trucks and cleans the street out after issuing tickets to cars. If I had had my car towed I would be ropeable ... "
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Lloyd Evans from the North Shore went to Mercy Hospice's new facilities in the grounds of St Mary's, College Hill this year. (Before patients moved in, there was an Open Day for friends and associates). "On arrival I encountered a staff member I knew. She took me on a guided tour. As we rounded a corner of an upstairs corridor, she excitedly showed me the fabulous bathroom. A white moulded shape, with every imaginable feature for bathing the infirm, located in a large space containing one floor-to-ceiling window that offered the bather a view across a canopy of trees to a distant city skyline of buildings. Without thinking I said 'Oh, what a bath to die for!' The staff member replied that while that may be the case, they didn't ever express it quite like that".
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A New York landlord hired a marching band to drown out the sound of his tenants protesting asbestos contamination this week. Many tenants at the midtown apartment building had been driven out to make way for the construction of luxury condos at the site, the New York Post reported. Concerned tenants said they had come into contact with airborne asbestos because of bad renovation work. But the marching band idea backfired for the landlord, by drawing attention to the tenants' plight. The Department of Environmental Protection has ordered construction stopped until the asbestos is cleaned up.
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Could the reader who thought the lifejacket for their baby had been pinched please contact Sideswipe. It has been found and yes, there is a reasonable explanation ...
