Q: With school returned for the year, what was the best thing at your school canteen/tuck shop?

That’s going back a long way. It was warm cinnamon donuts and hot dogs. Healthy eh?

Had to be the good old frozen milk and the frozen

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Is this fair?

I remember at primary school and the pies and frozen yoghurts. At high school it was the cream filled jam donut and asking mates, ‘got 10 cents bro?’

Dear Editor, In the Johnsonville Mall there is the opportunity for shoppers to place their receipts for one of four “local” schools, the most chosen of which will get $500 towards sports equipment.

Of the four “local” schools, two are church-based Catholic Faith Schools, and only two of the 10 primary non-denominational schools in the Johnsonville/Newlands area are offered.

Definitely a mince and cheese pie.

I wasn’t a frequent user of the school tuck shop but I do recall Mum packing ‘Roll Ups’ in my lunchbox and making ‘witches fingers’ with them.

And one of the church schools is not even a local school. It is in Khandallah. Only one in 10 residents in New Zealand adhere to the Catholic religion, so how come they feature in half of the choices the shoppers have? What happened to all the other schools in the area?

In the 1877 Education Act New Zealand enacted that education would be “free and secular”. That is, nonreligious and non-denominational.

Rob Julian

Producer Tania Dreaver Parker of Crofton Downs with Guido, her little VW, with its signwriting for her current show Over the Rainbow, the Judy Garland Story. It’s on at the Opera House from February 17, 18 and 19, with tickets available at Ticketek. This week, there’s a special offer, two for one for Valentine’s Week.

The starring role is taken by the iconic Ali Harper who sings Judy’s best known and most loved songs during the play/ musical which is, says Tania being presented to bring joy and exuberance to the Wellington theatre scene. “Theatre had been really hammered during Covid, and Ali’s performance is just mesmerising,” she says, adding that Cyclone Gabrielle has not stopped them in their tracks. “Well one of Guido’s wipers blew off on the way to rehearsal and I had to run through the gales and rain to get it,” she says. “And we weren’t able to hang our banner in the CBD until the wind went down. Otherwise, it’s all spectacular.”