The Tauranga City Council should move ahead with its pokies plan, a reader says.
Forge ahead with pokies plan
Yes please Tauranga City Council - forge ahead with your proposal to reduce the amount of pokie machines in our city (News, October 24).
Last week I popped into a Wharf St cafe for a coffee at 10.30am, and was gobsmacked the only other customers
were half a dozen people in the adjoining pokie den.
I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they work hours outside 9am-5pm, but it's hard not to wonder about the link to all the child poverty we hear of when that's the choice of a morning's "recreation".
Fiona McAllister
Mount Maunganui
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