Letters

Heartfelt thanks

To the Community, Family and my Brethren at Waihenga-St Johns Freemason Lodge of Martinborough.
As it’s been said, you are not a local until you have lived here for 20 years. 

Jen and I have always been made to feel like part of the community for the past 6 1/2 years. Now we feel we are more than part of the community, we feel we are part of the Martinborough family.
After all the love and  support we have received after the loss of our darling daughter Beatrice; the thoughts and prayers, donations, fundraising, the visits, food, flowers and lawn mowing. This isn’t done for people you just know but for family.

No amount of Thank You’s can show the appreciation that was and is shown by us. Beatrice would have been proud to be apart of the Martinborough family.
God Bless,

Jen, Paul and Beatrice

Thanks
I would like to pay tribute to the librarians in Martinborough  library. They have managed heroically to keep a service going in the face of tremendous physical difficulties following the closure of the Jellicoe Street building to the public in the middle of last year.

They have been working for months in the best librarian tradition of being  helpful and bright  in very cramped and messy conditions from a box in a car park, and it is an indication of how vital our library is to the town, that so many users have continued to use its services although so reduced and awkward to access. 
 
I am sure that there is great sympathy for their situation, and it is to be hoped that the forthcoming move will be a good step towards a complete library once more in Martinborough.
Anne Dodd

A Question for the Community.
Thank you for your letter of March 2013, Warwick (Bullock).  I want to know if other community members feel the same about our village as you and I do?

My husband and I chose Martinborough as our home when we first saw the clean, neat presentation of the township in January 2008.  It was obvious to us that here was a community who prided itself on the appearance of its surroundings.  It was our intention to do everything we could to add to this orderliness.

I was thrilled when I first saw the street-cleaning truck and then heard it at least twice per year in the first two years of our residency.  I had never experienced such a thing before and was proud that Martinborough (my new home!) cared in this way. 

However, the past three years have gone by and, sadly, there is a noticeable absence of this truck and our footpaths and streets are covered in debris and rubbish. Where I previously walked with my dog and enjoyed the beauty and pristine state of the streets I now am constantly dismayed by the litter, weeds, leaves and rubbish that is strewn on the pavements, in the gutters and on the roads!
    
What has happened that our council allows a beautiful, clean and tidy village to become a disreputable, grubby town?  What can we, as a community do, to pressure our leaders to ensure the continuation of the ‘loveliest township in the Wairarapa’, being MARTINBOROUGH?? , being MARTINBOROUGH?? 
Patricia Hill