Trust the trustworthy

In last week’s editorial Stephen Whitwell encouraged us to think about our relationships. One part of what he wrote that struck me was about trusting someone because they were ‘trustworthy’. You may well have experiences in your life of trusting others only to nd that trust was misplaced. You may well have been trusted by someone only to let them down and sadly found yourself to have been unworthy of that trust. Where does this leave you for the future? It can be hard to trust again. When trust has been broken can it be restored? What are you to do?

If you have been the one that has betrayed the trust of another you need to be one to take the initiative to apologise and seek forgiveness.

If you have been the one betrayed, you need to be open to both forgiving and receiving a genuine apology when it is o ered.

To regain trust and have a restored relationship is a wonderful thing when it can be achieved.

It takes courage to exercise trust again – and it’s not something you should do casually. ere will always be those who are not worthy of your trust – so you need to ‘trust the trustworthy’. To know who to trust requires discernment.

Proverbs 12v22 NIV says: “ e Lord detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy”.

And Psalm 62v8 NIV reminds you to: “Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge”.

I pray that God, who is trustworthy, will bless you and enable you to trust, and be trustworthy.

About 150 people attended a public meeting at the Kaimai Community school hall on May 23 because of their concern for safety on State Highway 29. e women and men spoke of the horrifyingly scary manoeuvres they have to undertake to get on and o the highway with trucks and vehicles bearing down on them.

National's Spokesperson for Transport Simeon Brown, and Road Transport Forum CEO Ken Shirley were guest speakers. Both men heard the harrowing accounts and agreed SH29 should be a road of national signi cance.

Everyone appreciated that Simeon was there to hear rst-hand the problems residents face on a daily basis, and not all intersections would be costly to x. Debbie Marshall said give her a pot of paint and she could x it at Old Kaimai Rd.

As co-chairman of the regional council transport and former chief exececutive of the heavy transport industry, Ken highlighted how the funding of roads was paid for by the trucks and cars on the roads and the fuel they consume, but under this present government it is not going into roading and roading maintenance as it should be. Now years of underinvestment and congestion in this growing area is destroying this sub-region.

One Friday afternoon a local turning into Poripori Rd had three cars behind waiting to make the turn too. She had moved way past the broken entry line to avoid the trucks hurtling from hitting any of them. She truly hoped that anyone with some power for change gets on to this very soon. She is a mum of seven and feeling very stressed. We need answers fast.

Margaret Murray-Benge, Bethlehem.

e recent Budget issued by the Government con rms that nothing has changed since Jacinda Ardern was either pushed or jumped ship (it doesn’t matter which). It was a vote-catching Budget with an extraordinary feature in that the Government was borrowing further, which is further exacerbating in ation. Ironically, within a week the Reserve Bank had to increase the O cial Cash Rate in an e ort to compensate.

No relief for low to middle income earners who have been facing the consequence of income tax brackets remaining unchanged for some 10 years. Now Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he will look at it eventually – but note that such a move will be in ationary.

Yet it is the Government itself that had the choice of compensating for such in ation by reducing its own in ationary expenditure.

e consequences of excessive and wasteful expenditure by the Government during the past ve years can be seen in almost every part of our society.

Bill Capamagian, Tauranga City.

e chaos with tra c build-up on the Omokoroa to Bethlehem State Highway 2 road has been created by the cancellation of progress of the Takitumu North Link Stage 1 Project after the 2017 General Election.

Had it been allowed to proceed it would be completed by now ready for the expected growth coming out of Ōmokoroa.

In my opinion there should be a Royal Commission of Enquiry into who was at fault for delaying progress of the TNL. is action has caused a public nuisance with more than 6000 hours of lost time on any one day, which is surely criminal at the very least.

Doug Morris, Te Puna.

On April 26, the lawnmower had a discussion with two of my ngers – it was not pretty!

I’d like to thank all those who interacted with me after the incident.

Some I will mention by name – others, who I don’t know their names, please accept my heartfelt thanks for your help and empathy.

Kelly [as rst to see] at Papamoa Pines, e Boulevard, and the crew there.

ose in A&E department at Tauranga Hospital.

e sta in ward SAU, the sta in Orthopaedic transit lounge, the sta in Orthopaedic Outpatients.

e Papamoa District Health nurses.

And a huge thank you to Kyla, the surgeon who thought outside the square and used a local anaesthetic Ring Block instead of general anaesthetic and managed to keep my ngertips –even though I am long-time smoker who declines the o ers of cessation help.

If I have missed anyone, please accept my thanks for the great service given.

Lyn Allison, Pāpāmoa.

Yep, it’s so easy to nd fault with events all around our city and elsewhere – for example, ree Waters, the new stadium, roadworks etc.

But, just for those who are feeling blessed to live in Tauranga, myself included, I want to give a big – well done to you – to the council for the superb new Marine Parade walkway extension, which is currently undergoing construction. It appears that a lot of thought has gone into its design and landscaping including a children’s mini playground, seating, barbecues.

Looking at the display board, I was amazed how far it is to be extended. Me thinks Pilot Bay walkway has now got some serious competition for a sunny day’s walk for my wife and I.

Mike Loakman, Ohauiti.

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