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STUFF Piotr Mierzejewski, a wheelchair user, laments lack of accessible housing in Dunedin, as he has to shower at the local swimming pool. Piotr Mierzejewski is living in a sleepout without hot water or an accessible bathroom, while he waits on the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) and Kāinga Ora to find him a home. In the meantime he’s resorted to sponge baths or showering at the local swimming pool to wash himself. So far he’s been waiting five months on MSD's Public Housing Register , ever since he and his wife were evicted from their Dunedin home, but the couple has been searching for an accessible home for more than three years. While he doesn’t like to complain, Mierzejewski, who uses a wheelchair, describes their search as like trying to find a needle in a haystack. READ MORE: Wheelchair user asks Kāinga Ora for safer home each month for 18 years Wheelchair user worries she won't be able to bathe in emergency housing Lack of accessible housing … [Read more...] about Wheelchair-user forced to shower at local swimming pool due to lack of accessible housing

I. JOHN FORSTER, who lived to complete but one of the three volumes in which he had planned to write the Life of Jonathan Swift, speaks in the preface of his hero’s correspondence “ with his friend Knightley Chetwode, of Woodbrooke, during the seventeen years (1714-1731) which followed his appointment to the deanery of St. Patrick’s. Of these letters,” Forster goes on to say, “the richest addition to the correspondence of this most masterly of English letter-writers since it was first collected, more does not need to be said here ; but of the late representative of the Chetwode family I crave permission to add a word. His rare talents and taste suffered from his delicate health and fastidious temperament, but in my life I have seen few things more delightful than his pride in the connection of his race and name with the companionship of Swift. Such was the jealous care with which he preserved the letters, treasuring them as an heirloom of honour, that he would never allow them to be … [Read more...] about Some Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift

THE extreme southwestern corner of Germany is an irregular right-angle, formed by the course of the Rhine. Within this angle and an hypothenuse drawn from the Lake of Constance to Carlsruhe lies a wild mountain-region — a lateral offshoot from the central chain which extends through Europe from west to east — known to all readers of robber-romances as the Black Forest. It is a cold, undulating upland, intersected with deep valleys which descend to the plains of the Rhine and the Danube, and covered with great tracts of fir-forest. Here and there a peak rises high above the general level, the Feldberg attaining a height of five thousand feet. The aspect of this region is stern and gloomy: the fir-woods appear darker than elsewhere ; the frequent little lakes are as inky in line as the pools of the High Alps - and the meadows of living emerald give but a partial brightness to the scenery. Here, however, the solitary traveller may adventure without fear. Robbers and robbercastles have … [Read more...] about The German Burns