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[kesara]

Rangitīki River [IMG_2710i] by Kesara Rathnayake

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Real-Life Examples of Successful Meth Cleanup and Remediation Projects

Methamphetamine contamination poses serious health and environmental risks, requiring efficient cleanup and remediation. In Wanganui, meth cleaning and decontamination have become critical tasks in restoring properties to safe conditions. This article explores some inspiring real-life examples of successful meth cleanup and remediation projects in Wanganui.

The Challenge of Methamphetamine Contamination

Understanding the health risks and dangers of meth residues

The necessity for effective cleanup and decontamination

Project 1: Meth Cleaning at the Smith Residence

Initial assessment and testing for meth contamination

Implementation of a comprehensive cleanup plan

The use of specialized cleaning techniques and equipment

Post-cleanup testing and verification of a contamination-free home

Project 2: Meth Decontamination of a Rental Property

Landlord's responsibility in dealing with meth-contaminated rental properties

Collaboration with professional meth cleanup services

Balancing cost-effectiveness and thorough decontamination

Project 3: Meth Cleanup at a Former Meth Lab Site

Dealing with hazardous materials and chemical residues

Ensuring safety and adherence to legal regulations

Collaboration with environmental agencies for proper disposal

Project 4: Meth Decontamination of a Commercial Building

Special considerations for larger-scale cleanup projects

Addressing the impact on employees and visitors

Post-remediation certification for a safe working environment

Project 5: Meth Cleaning in a Community Housing Complex

The importance of community involvement in addressing contamination issues

Educating residents about the dangers of meth exposure

Long-term monitoring and prevention efforts

Best Practices for Meth Cleanup and Remediation

Compliance with industry standards and guidelines

The significance of professional training and certifications

Employing eco-friendly cleaning products and techniques

The Future of Meth Cleanup in Wanganui

Collaborative efforts to tackle methamphetamine contamination

Promoting awareness and prevention in the community

Advancements in cleanup technologies and methods

Conclusion

Methamphetamine contamination continues to be a concerning issue in Wanganui, but these real-life examples demonstrate that successful cleanup and remediation projects are possible with the right approach. By employing professional services, adhering to safety regulations, and promoting community involvement, we can create a safer and healthier environment for everyone. Meth cleaning Wanganui and meth decontamination are essential steps towards achieving this goal, safeguarding the well-being of residents and the integrity of properties.

[williamdevan]

Tips for Finding Affordable Moving Services in Wanganui Without Compromising Quality

Relocating can be both exciting and stressful, and one of the biggest concerns is managing costs without sacrificing the quality of service. Finding the cheapest moving company in Wanganui that also delivers reliable and professional services might seem like a challenge, but it's entirely possible with the right approach. This blog explores practical tips to help you secure affordable moving services while ensuring your belongings are handled with care.

1. Research and Compare Moving Companies

The first step to finding an affordable moving service is thorough research. Not all moving companies offer the same services, rates, or quality, so taking time to compare your options is essential.

Get Multiple Quotes: Reach out to at least three different moving companies in Wanganui for quotes.

Look Beyond the Price Tag: While affordability is important, also consider customer reviews, service quality, and reliability.

Check for Hidden Costs: Some companies might offer low initial quotes but add extra charges later.

By comparing quotes and reading customer reviews, you'll gain better insight into the balance between cost and service quality.

2. Understand What’s Included in the Quote

Not all quotes are created equal, and understanding what’s included in your moving estimate can prevent unexpected expenses.

Ask About Inclusions: Does the quote cover packing, unpacking, insurance, and fuel charges?

Clarify Extra Fees: Will there be additional costs for stairs, long carries, or heavy furniture?

Request a Written Estimate: Verbal agreements can lead to misunderstandings, so always request written confirmation.

Understanding these details will help you make an informed decision when choosing the cheapest moving company in Wanganui without compromising on service quality.

3. Plan Your Move During Off-Peak Seasons

Timing can have a significant impact on the cost of your move. Peak moving seasons, such as summer or weekends, often come with higher prices.

Choose Mid-Week Moves: Moving mid-week instead of weekends can save you money.

Avoid Peak Seasons: Try to schedule your move during less busy months.

Book in Advance: Early bookings often secure better rates and availability.

Strategic planning can help you find an affordable deal without sacrificing the quality of the service provided.

4. Declutter Before You Move

Reducing the volume of items you need to move can significantly cut costs. Most moving companies base their prices on the number of items or the total weight being transported.

Sell or Donate Unwanted Items: Get rid of things you no longer need.

Pack Smartly: Use efficient packing techniques to save space.

Dispose of Bulky or Damaged Furniture: Avoid moving items that aren’t worth the cost.

Decluttering not only saves money but also makes unpacking at your new location much easier.

5. Ask About Discounts and Special Offers

Many moving companies offer seasonal discounts, referral deals, or package offers that can help reduce costs.

Look for Promotions: Keep an eye out for seasonal deals.

Ask About Referral Discounts: Some companies offer discounts if you're referred by a previous customer.

Bundle Services: Combining packing, transportation, and unpacking services can sometimes result in a lower overall price.

Don’t hesitate to ask your chosen cheapest moving company in Wanganui if they have any ongoing offers or discounts.

Conclusion

Finding affordable moving services doesn’t mean compromising on quality. By conducting thorough research, planning ahead, decluttering, and understanding your quote, you can secure professional services at a budget-friendly price. The cheapest moving company in Wanganui isn’t always the one with the lowest price, but rather the one that offers excellent value for money. With these tips in mind, your next move can be both cost-effective and stress-free.

FAQs

1. How can I find the cheapest moving company in Wanganui? Compare quotes, read reviews, and ask about any hidden costs.

2. Are cheap moving companies reliable? Affordable doesn’t always mean poor quality—research reviews and service guarantees.

3. When is the best time to book an affordable moving company? Mid-week and off-peak seasons are usually more cost-effective.

4. Do affordable movers offer insurance for belongings? Many do, but always confirm coverage details beforehand.

5. Can I negotiate prices with a moving company in Wanganui? Yes, some companies are open to negotiation, especially for larger moves or off-peak bookings.

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Established in 2011, Jazz Movers has built a reputation for excellence, providing attentive, caring, personal service to people and families across New Zealand.

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Whanganui

At the start of WW1 Whanganui was the fifth largest city in New Zealand. It is now the 19th largest, with a population of ~50,000 people, but is one of the more interesting to visit, with plenty to fill a varied couple of days. To begin with one of my favourite places, the fabulous Paloma Gardens, wonderfully exotic gardens 15 mins outside town. They’re a bit overgrown, but that is part of the…

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recently my dad, who dabbles in writing, happened to see something David Seymour said about privilege, and wrote an article about it in one furious sitting. That post is now gathering a fair amount of momentum on social media such as facebook and instagram. So fuck it, why not share it here:

"David Seymour said on twitter

"If you believe you have special rights because of your ethnicity, you’re going to be disappointed with the Treaty Principles Bill. When you’re used to special rights, equality feels like oppression."

A question I have for those who state that Māori get special privileges in Aotearoa New Zealand, Actually two questions.

1/What are they

2/what decade did they start in this country

Did they start in 1863 when the New Zealand government of the day started the Land Settlement Act? An act that confiscated millions of acres of land from the Māori because the Māori refused to sell, leading to the Māori land wars. An act that by the early 1900s meant that Maori held just 8% of the land they had held when they signed Te Tiriti O Waitangi and that percentage continued to fall. As of 2024 land currently owned by Maori is 5% and that's After Waitangi Tribunal Settlements.

The last bit of land was confiscated during WW2 to make an airfield.

Was this one of their special privileges that settlers to New Zealand didn't get?

Did they start in 1867 when the government signed the Native Schools Act, which decreed that all Native Schools would only be held in English? An act that is often blamed on a petition from tribal chiefs calling for a school for their Moku. Yes they did send such a petition but it asked for 2 things, that they be taught literacy, science, and numeracy and the second was that they be taught both in English and Māori. This act wasn't repealed till 1987 by which time several generations of children had had their language and culture beaten out of them. One of these was my Father, speaking Te Reo still makes his hands hurt and he's 80.

This must have been one of those special privileges that only Māori got as this privilege wasn't offered to Dutch or French or other European children who might have spoken another language at school

Was it being Blackbirded? For those that don't know it was the practice of kidnapping Māori and Pacifica and selling them as slaves in Queensland to work the sugar cane plantations.

Thats a privilege that will make you feel special

Was it in the 1850s when the Crown started confiscating Māori children and giving them to Pakeha families to greater assimilate them into the British way of life, An act that continued until well into the 1980s under the foster system leaving them subjected to mental, physical, and sexual abuse

Its a special privilege for special children

Was it a special privilege that John Ballance transported poisoned sugar and flour up the Wanganui River to sell to Māori an act that got overlooked when he became prime minister of this country

Someone was privileged anyway

Or was it in 1907 when the Government signed the Tohunga Suppression Act which banned Māori from access to their healers and medicines and made them rely on Western medicine instead? Did this get rid of a number of quacks, yes but it also suppressed a lot of local knowledge about medicine from local plants that had worked and it put them into the hands of the Western medical system that didn't have their best interests at heart either. It was also aimed at suppressing Māori religion and culture, after all, you suppress the belief system you suppress the people

The only laws aimed at suppressing a religion passed in this country were made against Māori so that must be one of their special privileges, but they did get to pick what religion they could be forced into, Protestant or Catholic so there's that

Is one of the special Privileges a shorter life span, on average 7 years shorter than Pakeha. Yes, the average life span for Māori in the 1700s was 30 but that was the same for Europeans. Is it because they have the privilege of having their symptoms overlooked in a medical system that has prioritised pakeha males, Is it that Pakeha women are more likely to be offered pain relief during childbirth than Māori women? Is it because they were often paid less than their pakeha counterparts at 81 cents to the dollar and so couldn't afford regular checkups? Is it because they were taught not to put themselves forward and to be noticed by society, to be a good Māori?

Is it a privilege that the New Zealand health system can no longer take their race into account when giving them treatment?

Better-researched people have written more on this special Privilege so I will move on

Was it in 1926 when old age and widow pensions came into this country and Māori were only paid 75 per cent of the going pension rate. In 1937 when pressed on why the Senior Treasury official Bernard Ashwin stated "On the face of it, it may appear equitable to pay the average Māori old-age pensioner the same amount per week as the average European pensioner, but in this matter questions of equity should be decided having regard to the circumstances, the needs and the outlook on life of the individuals concerned … the living standard of the Māori is lower – and after all, the object of these pensions is to maintain standards rather than to raise them.’" Or more simply a grass skirt is cheaper than a suit.

I guess being able to make do with less is a special privilege

Was it during the early to mid-20th century when signs saying No Māori's on pubs, hotels, theatres, and even drinking fountains were not uncommon and cinemas and pools had separate use days? In many places, Māori were only allowed to use the pools on Friday as they were cleaned on Saturday. It must have been that Privilege of trying to rent a property and seeing advertisement after advertisement saying Europeans only. Was it that privilege of being denied bank loans because they were Māori?

Being treated as lesser in your own country must be a privilege

Is it the privilege that Māori are jailed at 3 times the rate of Pakeha for the same crimes that will get a paler-skinned person a non-custodial sentence or no charges at all? They do get a special privilege that their race is taken into account when arrested, or charged or sentenced but that comes with the privilege of their race working against them every step of the way. During the mid-20th century often young Māori men were seen socialising together and harassed by police until they committed an antisocial crime like swearing in public and were sent to borstal

Is it a privilege that unjustified force is disproportionately used against Māori in police encounters and arrests

Constantly being under the watchful eye of the law must be a special privilege indeed

Was it a special privilege that Māori had to start occupying confiscated land in 1977 starting at Bastion Point in an effort to finally get some redress to the massive loss of tribal land, An occupation that lasted for over a year before it was brutally put down by the police and Army

Bash our heads, it's our privilege as Māori

And then there's that special privilege that Māori love and enjoy called the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act an act that takes the aforementioned and places them in the hands of the crown as opposed to the public domain or as was guaranteed by Te Tiriti and then promptly confiscated from guardianship and ownership of Māori. Luckily this bill was repealed in 2010 and replaced with the Marine and Coastal Act 2011 which guaranteed the right to access justice through courts but only if Māori could exercise that special privilege they have.

Can they show that their rights to the foreshore and seabed have been exercised since 1840, in accordance with Tikanga Māori, without substantial interruption and was not interrupted by law, say a law passed in 1863. Then if so, by special privilege then they can put it before the courts. In 2024 they got even more special privileges when the Government ignored the courts recommendation to lower the threshold of proof and required Māori to prove they had had continual exclusive use and ownership since 1840 to have a chance to get confiscated foreshore lands back

Yay the privilege of ever-moving goalposts

Did the privilege start in 1988 when the Crown returned Bastion Point to Ngati Whatua after a prolonged court case or was it in 1989 when the first Ti Tiriti O Waitangi settlement was done giving Waitomo Caves back to Uekaha Hapu or was it 1987 when Te Reo was recognised as an official Language or was it the early 2000s when Bilingual signs started being put up around Aotearoa or was it in 2024 when the Government banned Bilingual signs on roads and in government buildings?

Was it in 1867 when the Māori were granted 4 parliamentary seats, given the Maori population at the time compared to Pakeha it should have been more although it could have been 1868 when Māori men got the right to vote? Oddly it was 11 years before pakeha men were given that right, before then, only landowners could vote and because Māori held land in common all of them could vote

Was it in 1880 were several hundred prisoners from the Māori peaceful protest group Parihaka were held and treated to 2 years hard labour without trial and their settlements burnt and confiscated

Was it in 1977 when race was added to the Human Rights Commission as something you couldn't discriminate against as well as gender, religion or beliefs?

Was it in 1977 when a section was added to the Race Relations Act that made it illegal to publish, broadcast, or make public statements that were likely to incite hostility or ill-will against a group of people based on their: Color, Race, and Ethnic or national origins

Was it after 130 years of being ground down and stepped on and murdered and marginalised and robbed, that laws were made that said, you know we probably shouldn't have been doing that

Is the privilege the knowledge of what 184 years of all of the above does to a people, the hurt that it causes deep into the bone

Is it that in the 40 years since that Human Rights Commission rule that Māori have begun to hold up their heads, to be proud of who they are, to speak their language and to rediscover their culture?

To speak out against things that are wrong in the health system, the education system, the justice system, the welfare system and the political system. To demand, not ask but demand redress for the crimes that the Crown has not only done against them but encouraged others to do to them.

Did the Privilege start when the Waitangi Tribunal awarded 6 cents for every dollar of land confiscated? If you want that broken down, for every million dollars worth of land confiscated, the reparations were only $60000

Is it because New Zealand as a society got used to seeing them be shy, and humble and hard-working and lost amid the diaspora that pakeha society caused?

That society got used to being able to exploit the bits of Māori culture we liked, like the music and the humour and the strong back and compliance and when they found their voice and took it back and that redress was happening and suddenly, they were privileged because how dare they not be happy with scraps from the table.

That Māori were no longer being the Good Māori.

Is the privilege that in 2024, 184 years after the signing of Te Tiriti, Māori are finally getting a fraction of what they should have had if Te Tiriti had been honoured

One other question to the Pakeha of Aotearoa New Zealand

If all of this looks like a Privilege. Do any of you want to swap places?"

[kesara]

Old Mangaweka Bridge [IMG_2709i] by Kesara Rathnayake

[dame-de-pique]

Harry Moult - On the banks of the Wanganui River, near Taumaranui, 1920s

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[bugsb1te]

Te Reo Māori rambles ~

Kia ora, quick disclaimer! I'm still sort of new learning Te Reo Māori! (Teh-*r*eh-awe maah-*r*ee: the māori language) I only started my classes in term 1 and its term 2 currently. (a term is half of a semester, there are 4 terms in a nz school year) so yea! If you happen to know more than me and or spot a mistake I make when posting in or about Te Reo Māori, please correct me! Te Reo Pākehā (teh-*r*eh-awe paah-keh-haa: the English language) is my first language so I'm fluent in that :)

Also Te Reo Māori is kinda like a spinterest atm lmaoo im so excited about hearing the language being spoken and seeing it written around the country and im excited to learn!! Yayy!! Learning the language and Te Ao Māori (Māori ways/culture/traditions) helps me feel more connected to my Māori whakapapa aswell! (fuhck-ah-puh-puh: ancestors/ancestry) I am Māori, it doesn't matter if you're white or mixed. Having Māori ancestry = Māori. Period. In Māori culture we dont believe in blood quantums!!! so im what people call a "White Māori"

anyways onto the yapping!!!!!!

Key:

• (small brackets) = pronounciation and/or meaning

• *r/t/ng inside asterisks* = special māori sounds.

• bold = kupu Māori (maori words)

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Fun fact: the p sound is very soft! Like the p in "poo" NOT like the p in "keep" does that make sense? another super fun fact: all kupu Māori (cooh-pooh maoh-*r*ee: māori words) end in vowel sounds and never consonants!

Māori vowel pronounciation:

a - "ahh" as in: car, star, bar, guitar, far

e - "eh" as in: lego, leg, peg, said, head

i - "ee" as in: key, bee, see, reach, scream

o - "aw" as in: saw, claw, maw, jaw, NOT as in "oh/low/so/no"!! This is the most abused vowel by English speakers!

u - "ooh" as in: poo, moo, goo, soon, lose, choose, move, room

Digraphs:

Ng - "ng" as in: song, long, pong, singer, rung NOT as in: finger, linger

Wh - "f/ph" as in: phone, food, few, far, physical, philosophy, phile. NOT as in: who, where, when, what, whether, why, while .

note: different Māori dialects sometimes pronounce this sound as a "w". eg: lots of people pronounce "whanganui" as "wanganui" (fah-*ng*ah-noo-ee/wah-*ng*ah-noo-ee) For other sounds: For "R" focus on rolling your 'r' sounds, It's a soft rolled 'r' (NOT as strongly rolled as how Spanish speakers would roll theirs).  the sound you should aim for is somewhere in between an English ‘D’ and 'L'. e.g. like the 'dd' in judder, or the 'tt' in a kiwi accent for 'butter'. You should feel your tongue tip touching near the backof the roof of your mouth. T is pronounced kinda like a sharp "d", but 't' pronunciation varies depending on which vowel appears after it. When succeeded by an ‘a’, ‘e’ or ‘o’, it’s unaspirated (softer, closer to an English 'd'). When followed by an ‘i’ or ‘u’, it is an aspirated 't' (sharper, closer to an English 't'). Hope that makes sense!!!

Tohutō vowels:

(Special vowels sounds written with tohutō (macrons) on them)

ā - exaggerate and deepen the regular māori "a" sound and make sure it stands out from the other vowels! But not too much or you'll look like a fool lmaoo X3 eg: when pronouncing the sound, open your throat and lower the back of your tongue. And say "ah". It should sound different to normally saying "ah". another example is that "tohutō" is pronounced "toh-who-taww" not "toh-who-toh" !!

ē - same thing ^ but with "e"

ī - ^

ō - ^

ū - ^

Sentences !

(Please correct me if I make mistakes or worded the sentence incorrectly)

- " i tēnei ata i whakarongo ahau ki te ngā manu " - this morning I listened to the birds

pronounced: ee tehh-nae ah-tah ee fuck-ah-*r*awh-*ng*-awe uh-hoe key teh *ng*aahh munooh

- "Kei te pēhea koe?" - how are you?

pronounced: Kay teh pehh-heeya kweh

- " Kei te ngenge ahau " - I am sleepy/tired

Pronounced: Kay teh *ng*eh-*ng*eh ahh-hoe

- " Kua haere ahau ki te wharepaku " - I went to the toilet/bathroom

Pronounced: kooh-uh hai-*r*eh ah-hoe key teh fuh-*r*eh-pahk-oo

Ok im done yapping have a good day!!! Ka kite!!