WHEELIE BINS: A Rotorua Lakes Council staff member with the city's new bins which will start to be delivered this week. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
WHEELIE BINS: A Rotorua Lakes Council staff member with the city's new bins which will start to be delivered this week. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
I have now come to terms that I have to have two wheelie bins and a crate - for the next 15 years, whether I like it or not.
As my garage is a one-car size the big bin is not going to fit in so easily. I phoned the0800 number - I explained my situation to the assistant and asked if I could have two small bins. "We don't do small bins," was her reply. I rephrased my question: "I mean two of the smaller size bins." "No, we can't do that," she told me. This is bugging me, as I'm sure there will be hundreds of other households in the same predicament as myself!
Surely, we, as ratepayers and residents, must be able to have a say in the size of the bins we require!
Does this mean the company only has big trucks on recycle day and little trucks on rubbish day?
To all those mayoral aspirants out there, they will have read the recent bold headline of "Boom Time" for Rotorua on the front page of the Rotorua Daily Post.
It must have made your prophecies for doom and gloom curl up like an ingrown toenail. The lawyers have a Latin phrase that sums up this sort of headline (fortified of course by the spectacular detail of the boom on page 3). The phrase is res ipsa loquitur. It means "the thing speaks for itself".
Only one of those aspirants can lay claim to the credit for this headline. She is the one who will take us forward on the back of her inspirational and aspirational leadership no question. It's all about trust, ability, bravery and taking the people with her.
If you are thinking of looking elsewhere for such a leader among the six aspirants then the lawyers have a Latin phrase for that one too. It's caveat emptor, meaning "let the buyer beware".
