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Letters to the editor: Why is council sharing cost of tree removal?
7 May, 2021 10:00 PM
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Two eucalyptus trees on Fenton St have been removed, with the council sharing the cost with Rydges Hotel. Photo / File
Two eucalyptus trees on Fenton St have been removed, with the council sharing the cost with Rydges Hotel. Photo / File
Rotorua Daily Post
Your article, (News, May 6) says the cost of removing the big gum trees from in front of the quarantine hotel Rydges is being shared by the hotel and Rotorua Lakes Council. I would like to know the reasoning behind this.
Letters to the editor: More public money and time - for what purpose?
3 May, 2021 09:00 PM
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Councillor Reynold Macpherson. Photo / File
Rotorua Daily Post
Your newspaper article informs me Councillor (Reynold) Macpherson is once again to face code of conduct complaints three. These have been made by the chief executive, councillor Fisher Wang and Rural Community Board chairwoman Shirley Trumper.
The complaints follow Facebook posts. These type of complaints have happened in the past and, to my knowledge, not accomplished anything.
Do we not live in a democracy where opposing voices are tolerated?
Would it not be more prudent to simply ignore this?
Letters to the editor: Glass at playground symbolise council s priorities
6 Apr, 2021 11:00 PM
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Glass found in the bark at the Susan St playground. Photo / Andrew Warner
Rotorua Daily Post This has been an ongoing problem for young families with children. They go home with cut and bleeding feet.
The nearly $60,000 cost of replacement rubber matting is apparently too much. There is no guarantee the matting would be treated with respect either, according to the council.
But the council is prepared to sink $20 million into the Lakefront redevelopment.
Do tourists use the Susan St playground? No, just local families; the same people who are paying for the Lakefront via their rates.