Letters to the editor: Positive publicity should be promoted for Gisborne; thanks Elgin and Gisborne for found dog

Gisborne Herald readers share their views in letters to the editor. Photo / 123RF

What are businesses and the Gisborne Herald thinking of by publicising the alleged poor state of the CBD? (News, October 5).

Describing the CBD as “filthy and shabby” and like a “third-world country” is, in my opinion, hardly likely to encourage anyone to shop in the CBD, let alone people planning to visit Gisborne.

I also believe it does not help to have details such as "aggressive" homeless people scaring people away from town and reduced foot traffic publicised.

CBD businesses, the council and other agencies must attend to such problems with a co-ordinated effort and metaphorically get a new broom. They should seek to promote positive publicity for Gisborne.

Roger Handford.

Thanks to Elgin and Gisborne for found pup

We want to thank the wonderful folks of Elgin, and Gisborne as a whole, for helping us find our young dog.

Packing for home after a week-long visit from Palmerston North, our pup wandered up the street behind a young child on their bike.

We searched and called for her and were overwhelmed by the offers of help from everyone we met on the streets.

Messages went out on social media and within a few hours, we heard she was at the Elgin shops.

Thank you to the kind people who grabbed her off the busy road and tied her up, and the children who looked after her until we picked her up.

It was nice to experience the kindness of the Elgin locals.

Thanks, Gisborne.

The Ferry whānau.

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