With this successful horticulture and rural region where many people of all ages want to live, we deserve better.
Margaret Murray-Benge
Bethlehem
Time for the ratepayers' voice
Can someone please explain why Tauranga City Council will not be holding a no-extra-cost referendum to ratepayers when they have decidedly wished for a choice of pay-as-you-throw rubbish collection system at the coming by-election.
Surely the council has nothing to lose.
It is time the ratepayers were given some leeway instead of being charged for something they may or may not want.
Time to find out once and for all by vote.
James Newman
Mount Maunganui
House prices, now and then
In your article on profits made on houses (News, November 11), some were over [a] 30-year period.
I would have liked to see then and now photos, the houses now days would not have been recognisable from when they sold many years ago.
Wendy Galloway