It was with total disbelief that I read in the Friday edition of the Rotorua Daily Post (News, June 29) that the proposed changes to the speed limits on the Hamurana Rd were not passed by council, but were to go back to the strategy, policy and finance committee for
Letters: Speed limit decision a no-brainer
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Hamurana Road. Photo/File
Jerry Douglas
Hamurana
Doing it yourself
It is not only the supermarkets, petrol stations and airlines that expect us to do their work for them.
Do you have a grass verge between your front lawn and the kerb?
Do you mow it regularly, keep the tree tidy, sweep the leaves etc? Well just try doing anything else with it - digging it up, planting cabbages on it, even putting a permanent car parking space there.
Yes, it belongs to the district council, those people who regularly put up your rates and send you rude letters when you do something that displeases them.
The same people who expect you to look after their property.
Do they ever pay you for the care you give to the verge outside your house?
My question is - why not? Their property, surely it is their responsibility?
Jim Adams
Rotorua