Letters to the editor: Rates a sensitive topic in Tauranga
8 Mar, 2021 11:00 PM
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Rates are a sensitive topic at the moment. Photo / Getty Images
Bay of Plenty Times
In your paper, Tuesday March 2, you presented a rates comparison. You show a Tauranga Capital Value of $750,000 with a $2210.00 rate take. I have an actual rates bill in front of me for a $775,000 Capital Value for $2637.52 plus regional rates, making a total of $3146.97 - which is only below Wellington and Christchurch in your comparison.
May I ask when you are quoting such comparisons in the future, you say what is in and what is out and source your material directly.
Letters to the editor: Vaccination among vulnerable should be promoted
8 Mar, 2021 11:51 PM
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Rotorua Daily Post
I do not think the media should be making headlines about people who will refuse the Covid-19 vaccine. Hannah Tamaki did say (News, March 5) people should make sure you choose for yourself, not be talked into something undoubtedly knowing that she has a strong following who will do what she says and does. Unfortunately, these are very vulnerable people.
In my view, the selfish act of the Tamakis refusing the vaccine is not only putting themselves at risk, despite Brian Tamaki having previously said that God will protect them, but also those of the team of 5 million wanting the vaccine but still in the queue.
Five members of Rotorua s controversial ratepayers group - two of whom are district councillors - have resigned, with some dissatisfied with its leader, district councillor Reynold Macpherson.
Clockwise from top left: Rotorua district councillor Peter Bentley, Paddi Hodgkiss, Glenys Searancke and Rotorua district councillor Raj Kumar. Centre: Rotorua district councillor Reynold Macpherson.
Photo: Composite / NZME
However, Macpherson says it was wrong for a little power bloc in RDRR to reset directions and he hopes for reconciliation.
On Tuesday, former Rotorua Residents and Ratepayers (RDRR) committee members Peter Bentley, Glenys Searancke and Paddi Hodgkiss confirmed they had resigned from the group.
Rotorua Lakes Council spends more than $100k on withdrawn wastewater discharge stoush
17 Feb, 2021 02:09 AM
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Renee Kiriona. Photo / Andrew Warner
Rotorua Lakes Council spent more than $100,000 in the space of three months on an Environment Court case it later withdrew from.
The case was in relation to the council s plan to discharge treated wastewater into Lake Rotorua, which was challenged by Te Arawa Lakes Trust in 2018.
The action was withdrawn at the end of August, with the council, Central North Island Iwi Holdings and Te Arawa Lakes Trust working collaboratively toward a solution, according to a council release at the time.
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