Six years later, one would have thought this fast-growing region would have deserved something much better.
Margaret Murray-Benge
Bethlehem
Why is ACC advertising?
At a time when everyone is trying to cope with the cost of living, I question why ACC has a need to advertise its services as it is currently doing.
ACC is a support service with no competition as such - just like Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency, which provides roads.
Economists say that government spending adds to inflation.
Leigh Neilson
Tauranga
Online subscriber comments: Tauranga foodbank’s costs spiral
Donations to a Tauranga food rescue service are down 14,000 kilos a month and the city foodbank had to shrink food parcels - sometimes going without basics such as potatoes and onions - as its expenses soar by $10,000 a month.
Charities trying to feed people in the city are straining as food prices and demand rise during the cost of living crisis.
Read the full story: Cost of living crisis: Tauranga foodbank’s costs spiral, Good Neighbour food rescue volumes drop
Hats off to the Tauranga food rescue service. Perhaps the Government could have chipped in rather than wasting $46 million on its seventh U-turn with the Clean Car Upgrade scheme and other cancelled policies. Perhaps it shouldn’t have robbed the breadline folk by prolonging inflation to buy votes on things like $18m promoting a new public holiday. Then again perhaps it’s more important to bag the Opposition and call its suggestions a “coalition of cuts”.
Mike H
Rather than funding school lunches for kids to throw away, perhaps the Government should give the food direct to organisations like Good Neighbour who (unlike the Government) appear to know what they are doing and be capable of getting food into the hands of those who need it.
Greg M
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