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I have long campaigned for better parking in Rotorua, there should be at the very least three hours free parking in the CBD.
The recent headlines in the Rotorua Daily Post (Parking tickets net $1.2m, November 21) prove me to be right - parking fines up 23 per cent.
People plainly need more time to go about their business, shopping etc.
What percentage of the fines were levied on tourists/visitors to the city?
How many of them will choose to visit and spend their money in Matamata or Hamilton?
Wake up RDC and look around you, the city is already in trouble from loss of trade due to roadworks, unless you want a ghost town on your hands/
JIM ADAMS
Rotorua
Remembering 'Geronimo'
In the early 1970s I played football for Rotorua City with a young lad my age with whom I boarded.
His nickname was "Geronimo", a name he got from one of our opponents from Auckland.
He had long hair and wore a headband. This was the one and only Jimmy Heyder.
Jimmy was a dashing centre forward, arms and legs all over the place.
We played in the era when men were men you only fell over when some big defender kicked you up in the air.
Jimmy was a product of Rotorua Rangers Youth Academy along with Bobby Cunningham and Bert Klomp.
To me Jimmy and the basketball star Steve Adams look very similar at the same age. I do know that Jimmy is related to the well known Bennett family on his mother's side.
Jimmy still has a lot of old mates here in Rotorua from the Post Office and Telecom days.
These were great old days.
CLIVE PHILLIPS
Rotorua
A woman, 25, has been charged with assault.