Guest 766- Registered: 7 Aug 2012
- Posts: 18
What a great day, not only for the community but for all the staff who do and did work under goldfields regime. For us who were wrongly transferred out of the company on the grounds of goldfields lies, this has been a long time coming. Time to look forward now, a future without the carpet bagger. As for Mr Matcham, well, you sound like a petulant child, a wrong one at that. A great Christmas present for the people of Dover and my colleagues in the port and out of it.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
Mr Wiggins ,I bet you are glad you did not put your house on this happing now,like you said you would do when I last saw you,if you had,you would have been homless now,but I would have taken you in for a Xmas day meal and bed.
it is all in the pass now ,lets just get new D.H.B. members in place,get rid of the ones who wanted to sell the port,and when they go it must be without a handout.
Guest 766- Registered: 7 Aug 2012
- Posts: 18
On the petulant child claim, case closed, guilty as charged, no more to be said !!
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Mr P will have to look that word up,and being called a child at 70 sounds good to me,but please do not use it again thank you.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
i can remember accosting pat sherratt of dppt just after dhb had come up with their community port plan and suggested that the dppt idea was scuppered.
he retorted along the lines of their plan was aimed at the short term only, seems like the dft agree.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,247
It didn't take a genius to see that the DHB community port plan was flawed. I suspect that DHB were under the impression that all the government were after was a fig-leaf to hide the privatisation behind and that money would talk. They misjudged that badly.
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
- Posts: 622
I just hope we haven't missed an opportunity here to get some serious investment in the port, and as a result, the wider community. We need to think about the bigger picture and how Dover is perceived by those with the funds to make a real difference.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
thought you had disappeared off the radar kevin welcome back.
Guest 697- Registered: 13 Apr 2010
- Posts: 622
Always here, Howard. I have a tendancy to think long and hard before posting as my views tend to differ from the majority! This issue being one such example.
Guest 688- Registered: 16 Jul 2009
- Posts: 268
I think Dr Bob thought long and hard about that investment Kevin,about ten years long and hard
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
wouldn't worry about that kevin, never yet deterred alex.
i digress, the issue hit meridian news a few minutes back where we had neil trying hard not to gloat but failing miserably.
followed by bob clearly upset that the people of dover were losing out, not a dry eye in the house.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
I will tell you now will happen,after seeing the news tonight
There will be a new set up of the D.H.B. with a few members being members of the public of Dover,they will not hand power over to a p/p.
By puting a very few members of the public on the D.H.B. just to keep things sweet but still running of the port will be down to the full D.H.B. and the public members will have to go along with it because they will be outvoted.
Guest 688- Registered: 16 Jul 2009
- Posts: 268
Howard ,is that a sharks fin behind Dr Bobs left shoulder and could that be why he looks so panicked
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,087
I swear, I wasn't gloating. Of course very happy about the decision, but also aware of the work that still needs to be done so that the port becomes a good corporate citizen and delivers the benefits to all that it should be delivering.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
always has that look john as if to use an australian term, he has just been slipped a goldfish.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
I do not know why you are happy it will still not go your way.It will and must stay the way it is now. I think the Queen took note of my letter to her and had a word when she went to the meeting with the cabnet the other day.Telling them " Its my port so hands off."
Guest 688- Registered: 16 Jul 2009
- Posts: 268
No Vic,it needs to go Dovers way.
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,087
Mr Vic, I'm happy because Dover can now win and get the better future that it so richly deserves.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
So you now agree with me that the port will stay as it is Mr Wiggins with new members on the D.H.B.
Guest 1694- Registered: 24 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,087
No Vic I don't.
