Letters to the editor: How many scissor lifts does it take to hang baskets?

Hanging baskets in Ngongotahā. Photo / Andrew Warner

If anybody wanted to see evidence of why us poor ratepayers are sick and tired of the Rotorua Lakes Council wasting our hard-earned money on dumb things, they only had to travel through Ngongotahā on Thursday about 7.30am.

Council workers were replacing the flowers hanging from the verandas with a new set of an estimated 50 or so flowers.

No problem with that but can someone please tell me why they needed not one scissor lift, not two, but three scissor lifts to do a job that could safely be done from the back of a small truck with a safety rail on it?

In my view, a classic example of why our rates keep going up.

And don't start me on the painfully slow pace of the roundabout roadworks going on at the moment.

G Lee
Ngongotahā

Technology comes at a price

Many years ago, back in the 1940s and 1950s, we wrote letters and made phone calls from phone boxes and house phones.

If a company wanted to contact you or another company it either wrote a letter, telephoned or sent a telegram (something that never should have been discontinued). The only way to eavesdrop or read this information was to have a party line, tap a telephone or steal the mail - strictly frowned on and punished.

As a result, businesses were not compromised and held to ransom by villains.

Technology really does come at a price. A step back perhaps?

Jim Adams
Rotorua

Baskets won't bring back life to CBD

All the flowers and hanging baskets won't bring life back to the CBD.

All the businesses that attract high pedestrian counts, such as banks and phone companies, have moved out.

The city business and retail sector will suffer until they are attracted back.

Alf Hoyle
Lynmore

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