Letters: An innovative idea to recoup mud costs

Photo/Getty Images

Stop naysaying and be innovative. To recoup some of the $90k used to buy mud (for Rotorua) we could stop giving away precious water, freeze it and sell it to the Eskimos.

EVELYNNE SKINNER
Rotorua

Foot and mouth
I have several matters for your consideration and surely the most important one is importing mud from a country that has had outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease.

That is potentially devastating and should not be permitted. When I return from travelling overseas my hiking boots although appearing clean are often disinfected at the airport.

Surely, importing tons of dry mud is a much larger threat, and I hadn't even been to a country with this terrible disease.

This arrangement with the South Korean city must be abrogated.

Lakes Rd lighted sign on Humes building near roundabout: I find this brilliantly lighted sign very distracting, especially at night. I think it is a traffic hazard. No traffic ever stops there and no one can pause to look at it. It is intensely bright, as well. I think it should be removed.

It is a whole different thing from the lighted billboards at the intersection with Fairy Springs Rd where traffic is always stopped.

I am also happy that the huge yellow balloon is not aloft. It too is very distracting to drivers, as well as being an ugly blot on our landscape.

DELIGHT GARTLEIN
Rotorua

Jacinda gets my vote
At last, there is hope. Just when I had assumed that any politician worthy of the title was not to be found in New Zealand up pops Jacinda!

If she has the guts, the determination and the strength of Margaret Thatcher then I can see a way out of the horrific mess left behind by John Key.

I have always favoured the right wing in politics so my vote for Jacinda will be the first ever vote for the Labour Party. I like Jacinda, she is refreshingly straight and delightfully feminine, and unlike the men she will be replacing - I believe she genuinely cares about her country.

JIM ADAMS
Rotorua