With the help of the Government, why does the NZ Herald not take over the Bauer publications? This would keep all those experienced workers in a job and keep our history going.
Vina McCollum, Auckland
Pay-cut pleas resisted
Many New Zealanders are suffering severe financial stress, reduced hours and worse, redundancy, yet see most public and civil servants remaining secure with their paypackets. It is therefore heartening to see many public servants, including the PM, mayors, councillors and chief executives, embracing pay cuts and wage freezes. While it's a drop in their buckets, it demonstrates compassionate leadership, an empathy with those who are struggling and not only "doing the right thing", but "being seen to do the right thing".
Regrettably, in Rotorua we see the opposite. In the words of the mayor a pay cut suggestion is "morally reprehensible" and the chief executive described it as "immoral"! Do they think that those words accurately describe the leaders in New Zealand who have led by example? Is it not time for our leaders to become followers? Extra work pressure isn't an excuse. That comes with the territory of high profile and highly paid positions.
Unfortunately, as every day passes with residents begging our leaders to take a pay cut, they seem to be digging themselves into a deeper hole. One must wonder how this insensitivity will remembered and recorded in histories of this pandemic. History cannot be erased.
Paddi Hodgkiss, Rotorua