Do not adjust your set II

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Further problems today - though we suspect an errant Watcher with finger trouble rather than net-based gremlins this time - resulted in a whole raft of comments on the last post being inadvertently deleted. However, in a bit of smoke-and-mirrors trickery which would make a Spin Fairy blush, we've recovered the text of, we hope, all of them, which we've numbered because the original posting times were lost:

1. Patrick a cool chick? A cool chick my arse. She's a control freak with a talent for well-placed bottom licking. And buying DVDs with subtitles for the library does not mean you're suited to the position of Cultural Manager. Dell has experience in libraries and museums, and the Dewey Decimal System is taught to primary school children for Christ's Sake, and is hardly a mental challenge. The librarians Patrick hires are a case in point.

LW note: We were being slightly facetious in referring to the Dewey Decimal System, we admit. It was about the most complex aspect of running a library we could think of, and to be honest, eludes the memory of most Watchers when hunting for a book. Thank goodness for computerised catalogues.

2. Nicky (bless her) said:
"With lots of out-of-towners having already booked tickets, it's up to us locals to be in as well and so to ensure another crowd-pulling concert next year."
Brief translation: we're gearing up to provide underwriting for this event, despite promising that we wouldn't, because we haven't sold enough tickets.

3. Sally Patrick is the "Cultural Manager" with Sharon Dell as her 2IC. So where does that leave Bill Milbank? Shafted, big time, I'd say. I have heard that Bill was not notified of the "meeting" or "hosted briefing" (read: uninvited). As for having Dot & Co. as "Friends of the Sarjeant" all I can say is JAYSUS.

4. Oh for goodness sake ! Laws for all his shortcomings, was elected saying he would do this sort of thing! Seems they are there to make decisions and delegate roles and they are doing it... I would like the great unwashed consulted a little more though... that Community Survey comes to mind...what happened to that?

5. anon 8:58 said Good point about Milbank and Dell too by anon (8.24pm). With one senior manager you don't need three middle managers and its all been done within the 2005/6 budget so savings must be being made somewhere.

they could curate :)

6. Well well, so the meeting Warburton called made no mention of the Director's job being axed. Yet here it is in the Chron. in black and white. Are the artists representatives who attended Dr. Warburton's little soiree going to now recognise that they have been taken for a ride? When the Sarjeant Gallery has been destroyed you can all console yourselves that you did the right thing. You remind me of people dociley donning oxygen masks with the 'plane burning around you.

7. Wake up dreamers. Michael Laws is out to smash the Sarjeant. Stop compromising with these pricks and do something effective, eh?

1. Destroy the extension plans
2. Destroy the Trust Board
3. Confuse and fragment supporter's groups.
4. Destroy the management structure.
5. Destroy the collection.
6. Now for the opera house.

"Cultured" people don't vote for Mickey. Why would he want them to stay in Wanganui? Still think "they" won't let him get away with it?

Dupe.

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