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Government Must Back Insurance for Christchurch I Know A22 Saturday, October 1, 2011 THE PRESS, Christchurch Letters ❯❯ In a few words Government must back insurance for Christchurch I know. How about Fonterra’s farmers subsidise our milk and we’ll subsidise their water and Gerry Brownlee is underestimat- While we wait, the rich plan Defaulting now would save the their carbon taxes? Oh wait, we ing the seriousness of the their tomorrow. It’s vastly New Zealand taxpayer from more already do. Time for those guys to insurance problem for Canterbury different to what ours may be here expense, save us from four years of cough up. home and business owners. in Christchurch. moaning about a forward pass, and SARA TEMPLETON At a time when insurance cover TROY HOLIDAY save us from watching endless Why sell the Crafar farms? Why is needed most, the insurance New Brighton documentaries on the Auckland not lease them for 100 years? market is clearly not fulfilling the transport system. Leasing seemed to work for Hong need, and it is clear that the Not their business GRANT CHELLEW Kong. situation will get worse not better. It is looking very likely that Redwood GRANT MAGRATH Home and business owners earthquake insurance will be John Key is positive about the can’t afford to wait for an uncer- either unobtainable or Crucifixion risked economy. As a social worker that tain date when insurers will re- substantially more expensive as Of course, as God’s only son, is not what I see. I see families enter the market. It could be years. policies roll over. Jesus always knew his fate. If struggling to make ends meet, The insurance market failure is But I understand that the insur- rugby is our new religion, I hope coping with redundancy and now also a Government failure. ance industry is contributing to poor Ritchie McCaw does not unemployment. I see services cut Government intervention is need- the decisions made on the future of suffer a similar fate, if, on October for elderly people and people with ed now and on a permanent basis. the orange zones. Why should the 23, he is not the winning captain special needs. I also see my State Insurance, once a insurance companies have any say proudly standing with cup raised colleges and non-government Government-backed insurer able in whether our homes are con- towards the heavens. agencies stretched to their limits. to fill the insurance gaps that have demned, or not, due to insurance MELANIE EGDEN SANDRA McCARTHY now appeared again, was one of re-issues, if in 12 months they will Bryndwr I agree with Ruperte Dobson about many necessary state-owned not provide insurance cover at an the obsession with cooking shows enterprises sold off by successive affordable level to other homes in Move prostitutes on on TV (Sept 29). Produce home- Labour and National governments. Christchurch? We may have to It was with distress that I read grown garden shows, which show Extraordinary times require abandon our homes because they of the Prangell family having to how to produce food. extraordinary measures. It is now cannot be insured, only to relocate endure noisy and intimidating JENNY RESIDE time for New Zealand to once again to another property that then loses prostitutes outside their In response to Wendy Nichols own an insurance company, back- affordable cover. residential home (Sept 30). letter re the photo of Robbie Deans ed by the Government, with a mis- J COLLIER Having to put up with fighting not setting an example and sion to provide cover for all home Halswell and sexual transactions being wearing a life jacket (Sept 27), I owners and business property conducted outside one’s home like raised the matter with him. He owners who need it, and without City under-insured Artist’s impression: Architect Shigeru Ban’s design for a temporary, cardboard cathedral. It is badly needed, says a an auction is unacceptable. What said he was wearing a life jacket the burden of inflated premiums. The Diamond Harbour Com- correspondent, Joy Hird. one does in private (assuming it and never steps onto a boat Kiwis made KiwiBank a munity Association met to discuss does not breach the law) should be without one. success. Now we need the future rebuild on the site of ‘‘very fair’’ (Sept 29). But we have colleagues many votes that would Linked again no-one else’s business, but this PETER R SMITH KiwiInsurance to do the same in Godley House. had calls from people saying they otherwise go his way. does not confer a mandate to cram The Press picture of our naked the insurance market. That’s the It became apparent that city have sale and purchase EVAN SMITH James Armitage becomes the young families’ faces up against rugby captain posing as God is assurance New Zealand First now managers have seriously under- agreements showing they have Convenor latest link in the constantly the window of sex workers’ lives surely conclusive evidence of the offers – a simple, tried and trusted insured the assets of Christchurch, paid between $30,000 and $80,000 Riverside Community Group evolving connections between any more than it is acceptable to homoeroticism that pervades practical solution. No politics, no including Godley House, with the more than Rateable Value. If these Richmond Oxford University’s cathedral strap random strangers down and every aspect and area of the dismal more overseas junkets, just result that an inadequate insur- home owners are forced to sell, college, Christ Church, and our force them to watch pornography. game (Sept 24). effective action now. ance payout will go into a general they will face negative equity We need the Cathedral eponymous city. Street workers are like boy WALTER PITT DENIS O’ROURKE fund to be used on damaged when entering a spiralling What’s happened to the Christchurch-born Mr racers: they seek to use streets and Will we ever see every All Black NZ First candidate, Port Hills buildings. The council says the property market. Is that fair? cardboard cathedral? I would love Armitage has just been employed thoroughfares for something other singing God Defend New Zealand?. Mt Pleasant rebuilding of Godley House is A retired couple – he’s 71 – have to see this up and open by next in a fascinating double function in than their intended purpose, Perhaps if New Zealand had a therefore not a priority. had to go to work to get funding to February, as a living monument to the college: as coach of the first generally being monumental pains better national anthem the All Time to step in How can the councillors and buy a section. Is that fair? what we have lost and to how well eight rowing crew and as a fund- in the proverbial to regular Blacks wouldn’t mind singing it. I The house insurance market is city manager have let the assets of Here is a statement from we are surviving. raising assistant in the citizens in the process. don’t blame them for not singing broken. Buyers can’t buy quake our city be so underinsured that Quotable Value’s website: ‘‘A My nephew saved his money to development office of the college. I suggest the same approach to the present dirge. I wouldn’t. insurance at any price because only selective buildings can be council Rating Value is come from England for the Rugby The rowing job especially is a the former as the latter. Offer an NICK WILLIAMSON new policies are non-existent. repaired from the funds available? undertaken by local councils to World Cup. His time in great honour, for the Christ acceptable venue (preferably a After the earthquakes, Under these circumstances, it is Would these managers of our city establish property values at a Christchurch was limited, as the Church first crew is currently brothel) and, if this is not used, Christchurch migrated. befitting that the Government assets carelessly underinsure their specific point in time to enable matches he had tickets for had Head of the River, ie, the best institute prostitute-free zones. Commercial, retail and intervene in the market, offering own properties to the same extent? council rates to be assessed. Most been transferred elsewhere. eights crew in Oxford. Those who do not respect the professional services moved to itself as an insurer to enable this We in Diamond Harbour cannot councils in New Zealand reassess He loved the Botanical Gardens, Moreover, Christ Church is a rights and privacy of others Addington, Riccarton, Hornby, city to recover. wait 10 years or more for the property values every three years, the museum, local cafes and the rowing college with a distinguish- deserve no accommodation. Tower Junction and Northlands. There are precedents for this council to get around to replacing and hence a Rating Value is only fanzone. A drive past the Roman ed tradition. In the first generation DARREN A SAUNDERS Road traffic has consequently type of intervention in New Zea- Godley House. Adequate funds an accurate measure of a Catholic Basilica told him of the 19th century, just a few years Waltham become congested and dangerous. land and overseas. Furthermore, it need to be made available now by property’s value at the date of the something about earthquakes but before Canterbury’s founder, John All these centres are very close to would be consistent for the Gov- the council to rebuild the heart of last revaluation.’’ what I needed to show him was a Robert Godley, began his To the stake! railway lines. We need local ernment to do so, as it has already our village.
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