I can still quote the opening lines.
At 12 or 13 I read my first adult book, Gone with the Wind. I couldn’t put it down until when – about 15 pages from the end – I realized it was not going to finish well. So I closed the book and imagined my own ending. Scarlet and Rhett ran into each other’s arms. I fixed everything!
Some feelings never leave you.
Thinking of Women’s Day and World Book Day, it struck me those two books, that fired my imagination and love of books so long ago, were both written by women, Anna Sewell and Margaret Mitchell.
Some of the biggest Māori health providers in Auckland and Taranaki are frustrated they didn t receive any of the one million masks health officials promised for vulnerable whānau , but the Ministry of Health has said they ve been distributed through other channels.
The Ministry of Health now says one million masks were never intended for Māori health providers. (file pic)
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
On Monday, an email was sent to Māori health providers from the Ministry of Health s deputy director-general of Māori Health John Whaanga which said the masks would be distributed the following day to help people protect themselves from Covid-19.
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