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TODAY'S LETTERS
Opponents all have cellphones
Re: Cellphone tower uproar (News, April 12)
I am sure that all the complainants have a cellphone so what's the problem?
Or is it okay to have a tower in someone else's backyard but keep away from mine. I would be quite happy if there was no cellphones, that would cure the problem.
Claude Gibson, Brookfield
Cancer likelihood
Re Cellphone tower uproar (News, April 12).
Studies of people living near cellphone towers (eg Nalia in Germany and Tel Aviv in Israel) have shown that people living within a 400m radius of a cellphone tower increased their chance of getting cancer by three to four times.
I wonder if the Tauranga City Council employee who granted Resource consent for 2degress to build 12 cellphone towers around Tauranga actually went to any of the sites. If he or she had visited the 126 Grange Rd site he or she would have seen that my bedroom is 20m from the proposed cellphone tower site.Peter TrassTaurangaPhone warningNo need to spend all this money on a tsunami warning system when we all have one in our homes.
I raise this issue because I see all the proposals for warning systems that will not reach enough people and will cost millions. We already have the best system in place and it operates even when the power is off.
Our hard wired telephones. Simply arrange with the telephone companies to phone everyone in the affected areas with a warning message. If they can send me automated messages to buy things then they can do this also.
Day or night, we all get up to answer that ringing sound.
Ken Evans, Tauranga
Parking woes
Asking council to solve parking woes in the CBD is like asking Mr Wolf to investigate why the sheep are going missing.
The financial controller asks: "Do we want to maximise occupancy, or revenue?"
I say neither, and his statement illustrates why the livelihoods of private businesses should not be reliant on council to solve their problems
Ideally it would be to have parking spaces "available" for shoppers to use, while being of a value to encourage - as opposed to deter clientele.
In the real world, "more customers" are a good thing. The more people that want a parking space the better - It is only in the world of council and government that more customers are a nuisance and to be discouraged - ie harder to get on hospital waiting lists .
The only people qualified to make the parking situation work are those whose livelihoods are dependant on more customers.
The council have only bowed to continual pressure and appeased retailers with a token gesture - parking cheaper by 20c.
If this was a school report it would say: "D minus. Should try harder and pay more attention."
(Abridged)
Graham Clark, Lower Kaimai
Enjoyable show
I went to the concert Herman's Hermits and Gerry Marsden from Gerry & The Pacemakers on Saturday, April 9, what a great show.
Sitting talking with friends the next day, we wondered how many of today's bands would still be going nearly 50 years after they started out singing.
Wendy Galloway, Omokoroa
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* Dangerous bank Bay Times April 14. What if bank falls and crushes and suffocates playing kids? Irresponsible of council not 2 insist its fixed!
* Whats the story with the roundabout at 13th ave and edgecombe rd? didnt no that was a major intersection . No just council wasting our money again.
* murry guy keep the pressure on crosby its the rate payers money crosby is using.
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