Letters: AIMS Games should be cancelled

A reader says the AIMS Games should be cancelled due to measles risks.

If true that about 800 AIMS Games participants, as reported (News, September 2) have not been vaccinated, against measles, I believe that serious consideration should be given towards either not permitting them to attend the event or cancel the event altogether.

More than 100 Auckland school are scheduled to participate in the AIMS Games and I believe that the risk of measles spreading further in the Bay of Plenty is too high to justify the event proceeding.

It's too late saying after the event that we should have done things differently.

Mike Baker
Bethlehem

Art gallery visit recommended

On Tuesday of this week, I had the one of the most wonderful visits to an art exhibition that I have ever experienced.

The Jess Johnson and Simon Ward event at Tauranga Art Gallery, is breathtaking and I strongly urge all who can to head in that direction with an alacrity that would shame Usain Bolt.

If you enjoy lucid dreaming and long for some virtual unreality your cup will truly runneth over.

I'm told that the weekends are heaving with the younger set and so my advice is to go midweek before it's too late.

Richard O'Brien
Katikati

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