Waimarino election candidates

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 4, Issue 19, 7 October 1986, Page 3

Waimarino election candidates

Jim Goldfinch is a candidate for Mayor of Ohakune and for the Ohakune Borough Council.

Dorothy Scarrow is a candidate for the Wanganui Area Health Board.

Jim Goldfinch says he likes batting from the front and believes he has the capabilities for the mayor's job. "I was on the Ruapehu College board of govenors for seven years, and chairman for six. This involved me in financial management, negotiation and staff and pupil relationships. "During my years we managed to build, or gain approval for, the gym, the senior studies block, office redevelopment and the bus bay. "1 am good at negotiating and find no difficulty in taking a senior administrative job." Mr Goldfinch thinks Ohakune is in a good posi-

tion to go ahead with its tourist potential and its backing of the Winstone's pulp mill, forestry and farming. "But we only have a limited population with a certain rate take - we can only do so much. We don't have megabucks like Auckland, we have to grow up. "But we need tourism otherwise it will go elsewhere, and just to maintain our station we need to progress. If we stand still we will go backwards. Summer tourism is to be encouraged. "1 know that the elderly have been disadvantaged by tourism, and they need to be accommodated in some way. Maybe we should charge any new chalet twice the rates, but they should know that when they come in. 1'm dead against changing the ground rules." "Decisions 1 make if I am elected mayor will be based on information available at the time. But 1 would intend to run the town as a business. "On amalgamation I believe it must go ahead. What we need is to push for common sense between the three authorities. We will have autonomy within the system. "The council is the executive side. Their job is to think not to continually talk."

My interest in health matters and my concern for the general wellbeing of the people in the Waimarino, make me seek to serve a further term on the Wanganui Area Health Board. Perhaps these remarks are directed more toward residents who are recent arrivals in the Waimarino, those I haven't had the opportunity to meet personally. With a background of many years spent working in the healthrelated fields of public health and Plunket nursing, 1 have gained a knowledge of the

health requirements of the entire community. I see the need to plan for total health care: the curative and the preventative side of health promotion; the caring for the total person, physical, mental and spiritual; and the planning and delivery of health care, encouraging people to take responsibility and to accept concern for their own health. I welcome the advent of the move to an Area Health Board, when the concern for health movesoutof thefour walls of the hospital, into the community where the pattern of health takes shape. It is important that a network of support services are

maintained through ourdistrict nursing, public health and dental nursing in the schools and community. Essential too are the maintenance of clinical services in country areas, regular visits of specialists and the provision of maternity services to mothers in the Waimarino. The newly established Community Health Watch Committee will provide a vital link between Board and community in determining health needs of the area. 1 believe my years of experience in working with young familiescoupled with knowledge of the Waimarino and it's unique problems, enable me to serve as member for the Waimarino on the Wanganui Area Health Board. As a farmer's wife, mother of four and through my involvement as a family court conciliator and trustee for the Waimarino Rescue Trust, 1 have the understanding and ability to serve this community.