Letter of the Week
This letter from Bill Day to the Dominion Post has to win some sort of competition for best letter:
I’m voting for the other Bill Day
I refer to your article and photo of Wellingtonion of the Year finalist Bill Day. Regretfully, there are two Bill Days in Wellington.
The finalist Bill Day has devoted a lifetime to giving back to the community in areas such as the Life Flight Trust. I, on the other hand am more known for the ruthless exploitation of land, labour and capital in pursuit of the profit motive, along with unsavoury recreational pursuits such as organising No Fat Chicks Tours to the Antarctic.
Unfortunately, you used my photo.
You are not the first to make this mistake. Both of our fathers were also called Bill Day so this is the second generation of confusion.
It all works out okay by me. I get cases of wine delivered at Christmas that were meant for him and he gets chased down the street by irate husbands that were after me.
We should, though, acknowledge the real Bill Day, who has made our city a much better place and who will most certainly be getting my vote.
BILL DAY
Owhiro Bay
The Bill Day who wrote the letter is the Seaworks Bill Day who won Entrepreneur of the Year in 2000.
November 9th, 2007 at 8:08 am
I read that well over a week ago in one of those old-fashioned things called a newspaper.
November 9th, 2007 at 8:08 am
brilliant! That is what I call a letter to the editor
November 9th, 2007 at 9:28 am
I posted this one yesterday in the General debate – it was in yesterdays Dom Post;
`If that is a Tame Iti – I would not like to meet a wild one’.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:30 am
I’ve seen/heard Bill Day speak (the Seaworks Bill Day that is) Very funny energetic man who deserved to be entrepreneur of the year.
Could not one of the four Bill Day’s have caled themselves William?
I hope Bill Day and Bill Day sit down and enjoy thoses cases of misappropriated wine together.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Hmm, I guess we better not have a Kill the Bill Day then!
November 9th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Bill Day of Seaworks, judging by that letter, is a better candidate for Wellingtonian of the Year than the other Bill Day, who, in my opinion, is not as deserving as the other candidates, about whom I know nothing, not even their names.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Great letter.
Although he doesn’t give himself enough credit for pursuing profit.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:53 am
I bet there is a really nice lady out there somewhere called Helen Clark imagine the letters, mail and irate husbands she has to deal with!
November 9th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Lee C
Helen Clark is a former NZ womens hockey goal keeper and captain. It was not too long ago that she retired.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
I think she was Clarke.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Yeah – and Helen Clark (PM) went to watch the hockey team when they were going great guns at the Sydney Olympics – and what happened the day she turned up? Yep, they got thrashed! The Clark Curse struck again!
November 9th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
There is a Helen Clark who is a Human Resources professional. She used to work for the Govt department I was attached to. As she said – the name had it’s uses; everyone returned her calls.
November 10th, 2007 at 7:42 am
The letter shows great humility from the more famous of the 2 Bill Days.The one who was nominated richly deserves it he is a great guy and has spent vast amounts of his time working for charities