Letters to the editor: Support still there for Tenby Powell

A reader says there is still support for mayor Tenby Powell. Photo / File

We are mortified to read that mayor Tenby Powell feels he has lost the support of the community (News, August 3).

He may well have lost the support of the nasty fringe of society who write abusive emails to our elected councillors. But he has not lost our support, or that, we suspect, of most of the community.

For years our councils have let important issues languish.

Powell has helped to quickly and efficiently resolve some of them. We applaud the sorting out of the land transfer at the Elms, the pathway around Mauao, and the collaboration with the regional council and the Western Bay of Plenty Council.

We look forward to real action over rubbish and recycling, an issue which successive councils have put in the too-hard basket.

Ann and Basil Graeme
Tauranga

Yes, people still use cheques

The banks do not do us any favours.

We lend them our money to allow them to make vast sums of money in loans and investments.

We are elderly people who find it very difficult to do much on a computer - frankly, we just don't trust them.

There are others like us, I know many of them.

When we pay bills to people out of our area we send them a cheque, we have always done this and we feel safe doing it.

Why then do the banks suddenly decide that they will do away with cheques?

This is a gross infringement of our rights to handle our money the way we wish to so do.

If others feel the same way maybe this is a good time to complain. (Abridged)

Jim Adams
Rotorua

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