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Masterton Music Works have a nice new selection of reasonably priced harmonicas.
grab them now while stocks last and start tooting!
yes sirree.
MY apologies to Mayor Lyn Patterson of Masterton.
I told her I would be at the hearings but I had another matter to attend to.
However I am sure that there were enough concerned people to keep the Council on the straight and narrow.
Most councils are usually fiscally responsible except when they get delusions of grandeur and go overboard with borrowed money to put the ratepayers into a massive debt.
My interest is in the future of Masterton and the region.
When I was boy Masterton had 4 plastics factories. A large whitewear durable goods factory . A Freezing Works and sundry other medium size employers.
All that is gone now.
The problem is how to stop rural areas from emptying out.
Like the housing crisis this a universal phenomenon.
It is happening everywhere in the first world and country's like France offer sizeable premiums to people to relocate to the countryside.
(more than a measly $5,000!)
The thing is now how to create something from scratch and answer is obvious to me.
It involves a commitment to following something through from go to whoa and that something is a media industry.
First item is a radio station.
Radio in the Wairarapa is too small to figure in the ratings and not only that they are all franchises wired in from HQ in Auckland with local ads chucked in!
nice.
how local is that.
Yep.
And the Access Radio is part of a model that no one listens to and you have to pay to use.
A small micropulse station is what is needed that is truly local and staffed with people who know other people who want to deliver recipes gardening etc without having to go out and finance their own hours.
Think Fannie Flagg.
Access Radio can be there to be used a s a training facility and a revenue earner not dependent on advertising.
Step two is to get UCOL on board and set up a:
1: Radio School
2: wardrobe, and makeup schools
3: train camera operators, sound engineers and other necessary people.
4: a drama school
5: re establish the music school. And most importantly make the students perform live for the locals instead of gaining skills and pushing off like everyone else.
All these things must be done concerted and not piecemeal.
And not dispersed.
After year one then UCOL can set up a producers school and teach people how to finance independent productions.
John Stuart Mill appears to argue on "Utilitarianism" that because people are interested in their own happiness then they are also interested in the happiness of all.
This is a fallacy of composition and until we have some concerted action then nothing is ever going to happen.
IN 1984 I read all the newspapers printed in the Wairarapa from 1891 onwards and believe you me there is enough stuff here for any number of dramas and docummentary's.
Forget ART until people have acquired skills.
This is the last opportunity because in 2 years time the unitary plan will be imposed by fiat on the Wairarapa and the elected local body members will be spending their time swanning round Wellington and pretending to be doing something for the regions after they have lost touch with their electorate.
Dig
Time to act now before it is too late
Masterton Music Works have a nice new selection of reasonably priced harmonicas.
grab them now while stocks last and start tooting!
yes sirree.
MY apologies to Mayor Lyn Patterson of Masterton.
I told her I would be at the hearings but I had another matter to attend to.
However I am sure that there were enough concerned people to keep the Council on the straight and narrow.
Most councils are usually fiscally responsible except when they get delusions of grandeur and go overboard with borrowed money to put the ratepayers into a massive debt.
My interest is in the future of Masterton and the region.
When I was boy Masterton had 4 plastics factories. A large whitewear durable goods factory . A Freezing Works and sundry other medium size employers.
All that is gone now.
The problem is how to stop rural areas from emptying out.
Like the housing crisis this a universal phenomenon.
It is happening everywhere in the first world and country's like France offer sizeable premiums to people to relocate to the countryside.
(more than a measly $5,000!)
The thing is now how to create something from scratch and answer is obvious to me.
It involves a commitment to following something through from go to whoa and that something is a media industry.
First item is a radio station.
Radio in the Wairarapa is too small to figure in the ratings and not only that they are all franchises wired in from HQ in Auckland with local ads chucked in!
nice.
how local is that.
Yep.
And the Access Radio is part of a model that no one listens to and you have to pay to use.
A small micropulse station is what is needed that is truly local and staffed with people who know other people who want to deliver recipes gardening etc without having to go out and finance their own hours.
Think Fannie Flagg.
Access Radio can be there to be used a s a training facility and a revenue earner not dependent on advertising.
Step two is to get UCOL on board and set up a:
1: Radio School
2: wardrobe, and makeup schools
3: train camera operators, sound engineers and other necessary people.
4: a drama school
5: re establish the music school. And most importantly make the students perform live for the locals instead of gaining skills and pushing off like everyone else.
All these things must be done concerted and not piecemeal.
And not dispersed.
After year one then UCOL can set up a producers school and teach people how to finance independent productions.
John Stuart Mill appears to argue on "Utilitarianism" that because people are interested in their own happiness then they are also interested in the happiness of all.
This is a fallacy of composition and until we have some concerted action then nothing is ever going to happen.
IN 1984 I read all the newspapers printed in the Wairarapa from 1891 onwards and believe you me there is enough stuff here for any number of dramas and docummentary's.
Forget ART until people have acquired skills.
This is the last opportunity because in 2 years time the unitary plan will be imposed by fiat on the Wairarapa and the elected local body members will be spending their time swanning round Wellington and pretending to be doing something for the regions after they have lost touch with their electorate.
Dig
Time to act now before it is too late
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