Come on public sector, do your bit
Do teachers, police officers and nurses deserve pay increases? Of course they do, but while they may feel hard done by after the pay-freeze announcement, they should be thankful that they didn't lose their jobs last year and didn't work on reduced pay
like many in the manufacturing and private sectors. Come on PS workers, do your bit towards our economic recovery.
Martin Spinks, Mellon's Bay
Olympic hurdle
This current conundrum re athletes (and officials) being Covid vaccinated or otherwise, is simply resolved as I see it. All that is required is the Olympics host nation to announce to the world that unvaccinated athletes and officials will not be allowed to enter Japan.
In turn this places an onus on the world's airlines to instigate vaccination restrictions at the point of check in, otherwise they will have responsibility to return unvaccinated athletes to where they came from.
Such a veto is consistent with what is already Japan's policy re spectators from other countries.
Some athletes who can't or won't get vaccinated for Covid may well feel aggrieved. Frankly that's tough, common sense says they shouldn't be there anyway.
Phil Chitty, Albany
Brierley dollars
Your editorial ("Brierley cash can do good", HoS, May 9) summed up perfectly how an icon of the old financial world has contributed to numerous good causes in sport and education, but the defining sentence is tucked in somewhere towards the end, where you state that there's no way of knowing where the $20 note in our purse has come from and why it has already changed hands.
Were Brierley a violent, intimidating, murderous patched gang member, nobody would've been any the wiser and the transactions of his luxurious toys and property could not be revoked, reimbursed or cancelled from the original seller of his goods.
Perhaps we should quietly accept his donations, while leaving no connection to their sources.
René Blezer, Taupō
