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national and local politicians and railway enthusiasts.<br />
For more information visit: http://www.steaminc.org.nz<br />
Questions for Political Parties<br />
<strong>Dargaville</strong> <strong>Online</strong> is preparing a questionnaire to be<br />
sent to all the major political parties. In it we will be<br />
asking them to tell us what they will do for our town<br />
and community if elected to govern later this year. We<br />
will publish their replies each week in our newsletter.<br />
If you have a particular question you would like us to<br />
ask them, please send us that question in an e-mail.<br />
We will use a selection of these in our questionnaire<br />
Electoral Roll<br />
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and<br />
half shut afterwards. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)<br />
It is time to make sure that you are on the electoral<br />
role if you are eligible to vote. You can do this online<br />
at http://www.elections.org.nz/enrolment/how-to-enrol/<br />
how-to-enrol-to-vote.html<br />
It is of concern to read in the news that a lot of Maori<br />
electors have had their enrolment forms returned so<br />
please make sure that you do get onto the roll and<br />
vote.<br />
The old saying that people get the government they<br />
deserve through complacency is so true!<br />
The F-word sees ‘Whakatane’ censored online<br />
From stuff.co.nz Friday, 01 August 2008<br />
The pronunciation of “Whakatane” and its close proximity<br />
to the offensive F-word has seen the town censored<br />
in cyberspace. A visiting tourist was astounded<br />
that he could not search for “Whakatane” on the district<br />
council’s own online service, because the word<br />
was considered vulgar.<br />
Visiting Auckland web developer John Henry used his<br />
laptop in the middle of the town to connect to the council’s<br />
wireless service, called Freenet. He was flabbergasted<br />
to discover his Google searches for<br />
“Whakatane’ services were rejected by the content filter.<br />
The Freenet website’s explanation was: “The content<br />
is filtered so this service is for legitimate use.” “I<br />
could search for ‘fish and chips’ but not for ‘Whakatane<br />
fish and chips’,” Mr Henry said.Council communications<br />
manager Barney Dzowa explained that the prob-<br />
lem lay in the pronunciation of the town’s name. “The<br />
content filter is an American-based product, and it does<br />
a phonetic analysis of what has been typed in,” he<br />
said. “Whakatane, to the system, sounds like an Fword.”<br />
Following Mr Henry’s discovery, district councillor<br />
Russell Orr, who business provides the service, has<br />
now solved the problem. He added the town’s name<br />
to a list of words capable of over-riding the content<br />
filter.<br />
Historic <strong>Dargaville</strong><br />
St Josephs School<br />
On 21 March 1906 <strong>Dargaville</strong>’s parish priest<br />
- Father van Westeinde’s - wrote a letter to<br />
the Bishop of Auckland, Bishop Lenihan<br />
requesting him to write to Mother Mary<br />
McKillop, founder of the order of Sisters of<br />
Joseph of the Sacred Heart (often called the<br />
Brown Joes to distinguish them from the<br />
Sisters of St Joseph of Nazareth - Black<br />
Josephs). Bishop Lenihan enclosed this in<br />
one of his letters, which he wrote to Mother Mary on<br />
22 April 1906.<br />
In September of 1907 Father A. Bowen, a Mill Hill Missionary,<br />
who had replaced Father van Westeinde as<br />
parish priest in <strong>Dargaville</strong>, wrote an impassioned letter<br />
to Mother Mary:<br />
“Send us Sisters to nurture and cherish those delicate<br />
little plants in God’s own garden; Sisters to water with<br />
gentle counsel and kindly advice, to prune away an<br />
unsightly growth of unruly propensities — which, if not<br />
amputated, might develop into open vice — in fine,<br />
Sisters who, when the fierce blasts of worldliness and<br />
temptations shall assail these unprotected plants in<br />
their immaturity, may bind them securely to the immovable<br />
support of Catholic faith and piety”.<br />
The Sisters arrived and the foundation stone of St<br />
Joseph’s School was laid on December 8 th 1907.<br />
Monsignor Hackett opened the school in March 1908<br />
with over 60 pupils. At that time the Sacred Heart<br />
Church, St Joseph’s School and the convent were at<br />
Mangawhare, then some distance from the site of the<br />
present township of <strong>Dargaville</strong>. They stood quite close<br />
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