Letters: Cause for concern over aquatic centre's future

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There is still cause for concern over the future of the Aquatic Centre. If, as the mayor has said, she reminded councillors that "whichever way it went, our decision on Wednesday regarding the Aquatic Centre would be open to judicial review", (Rotorua Daily Post, March 6) why then did councillor Sturt have to ask if Community Leisure Management would now go to the High Court? He should have known.

The chief executive stated that "editing of meeting recordings was not usual practice". Why then, this particular meeting?

Suggesting that two councillors should have declared a conflict of interest is laughable.
They played no part in preparing the plan. They simply wanted the decision on the future of the Aquatic Centre to "go back to the drawing board", so that all options could be explored without bias. Remember, at the meeting on Wednesday, only the option preferred by the mayor, chief executive and other councillors was presented and this took over an hour. In my view that could be construed as a conflict of interest, the interest being only on pushing through their preferred option as quickly as possible.

Now there is plenty of scurrying around to somehow avoid a judicial review and get the preferred option, outsourcing the management of the Aquatic Centre to CLM, enacted.

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PADDI HODGKISS
Rotorua

Physics confusion

Your correspondent (Letters, March 6) seems confused about the laws of physics.
Understandable given that in some circles, physics is regarded as philosophy. As inductive and deductive modes of thought merge (east/west), science in general and physics in particular, is becoming self conscious. While there is no evidence for self organising matter, there are observable patterns of organic energy. This distinction is like a riddle wrapped in a mystery.

MIKE BYRNE
Rotorua