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Rail helps develop and maintain the population in the regions, argues train fanatic.
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Letters: Politicking is fodder in favour of Ardern's re-election chances
Your letters to the Whangnui Chronicle
Let's Talk Law: Family Court services available during lockdown
Let's Talk Law with Treadwell Gordon Solicitors.
Friend's death sparks memories of Japan
During the last week of the level 4 lockdown my friend John Steele passed away.
Let Whanganui manage its own lockdown and allow businesses to get back to work
Zero or very little revenue will cripple even the best business.
Hair today gone tomorrow, budget trims ahead
Kevin Page finds budget cuts can be a little hair-raising.
Comment: Covid 19 brings out good and bad in people and politicians
Comment: The past two months have been the most challenging of times in many years for NZ.
Let's Talk Law: Tenants better protected under proposed rental law changes - even bad ones
Landlords will no longer have the final say when terminating a tenancy.
Letters: Call for rates to be cut from current levels
Your letters to the Whanganui Chronicle.
Go Local! Get behind our local businesses
Go Local! We will be bringing you stories of local business innovation and success.
Over-exposure danger as NZ steps down to level 3 lockdown
Before finalising a plan there needs to be evaluation of potential outcomes.
Level 3 still leaves small businesses hamstrung
Ian McKelvie: The transition to level 3 from next Tuesday will be welcomed by many.
'We all knew about the war but no one spoke of it'
Times have changed and as a country we are much better at observing Anzac Day.
Bryan Gould: Bridges' leadership safe ... for now
Comment: Simon Bridges felt impelled to show that he was his own man.
Letters: Buy local for sure, but how local is local?
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Editorial: The quirks of life at level 4
It's been four weeks, but in some ways it has felt like four months.
Loss of locks adds to lockdown stress
Redundancy and a haircut? Kevin Page deals with the chop.
Bryan Gould: Now is the time to stay strong
COMMENT: Now is the time to stay strong.
Comment: Lockdown stirs memories of when life was simple
Is every day a Sunday in our bubbles?
Alas ye Trumplet - we know him well
Terry Sarten ponders the world we're in through the eyes of Shakespeare.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Russell Bell; moving forward the next big challenge
Complete information about the virus here and overseas is difficult to find.
Waiting for Covid-19 release papers
Life on the outside of lockdown could be very different, writes Kevin Page.
Bryan Gould: What we can learn from earlier generations
COMMENT: The crisis is a chance to draw strength from earlier struggles.
Let's Talk Law: Managing cashflow in Covid-19
Where money is at stake, the human condition does not lend itself to "take it on the chin"
Rob Rattenbury: When men become monsters
COMMENT: Domestic violence is blight on this land that brings shame.
Museum Notebook: Exotic birds
The museum does hold some beautiful exotic specimens with interesting tails and beaks.
Terry Sarten - I Spy with My Little Eye
It is said that a crisis brings out the best and worst in people.
Jay Kuten: Covid 19 coronavirus - Looking to the future
One thing put on hold during this pandemic is this column
Editorial: Let's keep going Whanganui, it's in our hands
We need to be extra vigilant over the next two weeks of lockdown.
Are we really being punished for our sins?
Covid-19 could be just a dress-rehearsal for the real crisis heading our way.
Russell Bell: My new definition of hero
If you're wearing a mask and you cough or sneeze a virus can still pass through it.