Rotorua's Te Aka Mauri Library and Children's Health Hub. Photo / Stephen Parker
New library
I am getting really peed off with our lovely new library.
Since about March, I've received six reminders by letter about books not being returned on time.
I have in fact returned these books.
The excuse from staff is that they are having teething problems.
I get asked if I put the books back properly in the slot and did they go in one by one.
I am not an angry person but this carry-on gets right up my nose.
So come on you lot, get your act together.
Clive Phillips
Selwyn Heights
Glossy magazine
While pushing their overdraft more and more in the red, one would think the council would adopt a more frugal attitude.
I don't think ratepayers appreciate their glossy magazine, which has cost us $72,000 so far.
If there is any information that the ratepayers must know, than a simple inexpensive insert in our rates demand is all that is needed.
The Tatau Tatau magazines with pictures of the mayor is a more self-glorifying production. Why make this a work of art? Surely nobody is going to frame it?
Harry Brasser
Rotorua
On the money
I must say that in my case Ryan Gray (Letters, October 13) was right on the money. I don't know how to make my views of council activities heard to the council and I don't want to learn.
In fact, when that flashy Long-term Plan arrived I just binned it without taking much notice if it had dollar amounts in it.
It was only when they started with that silly Lakefront business costing the ratepayers and taxpayers $40 million that I took much notice.
Gray says 53 per cent voted in favour of it but 53 per cent of residents doesn't mean 53 per cent of ratepayers.
They could drag up residents quite easily because residents don't pay rates.
Any ratepayer agreeing to this sort of spending would have to have rocks in their head or more money than brains.
My rates went up over 12 per cent with the last increase. What's in store for the next rise? Ratepayers, not residents should be polled on this subject because they actually foot the bill and pay the dreamers in the ivory tower.
It's a pity the council is, in my view, short on intestinal fortitude.
I bet they are not short of angry ratepayers though.
It's just some don't speak up until the council says it is too late.
Rod Petterson
Westbrook
Two more motels will stop being contracted by the Government for emergency housing.