Letters To Editor: Bravo to council garden staff

Bravo to council garden staff
I think that it is fitting that I comment on the staff that tend the gardens and the foreshore lands and gardens at Napier.
The people and ratepayers of Napier are to be very proud of the way that those staff tend and care for our said gardens.
They keep everything up to "scratch".
I go for a walk most mornings along the pathway on the foreshore, it is with pride that I and other Napier residents enjoy the gardens and the flowers that those hardworking folk keep as community resources.
I do have to state that it does sicken me, particularly on Saturday mornings, when one sees the broken glass bottles etc. and vandalism sometimes.
To those council staff that tend those grounds, you do a mighty task.
Sam Blake, Napier
Trust in PM
I read A. Thomas's letter in Monday's paper.
A. Thomas, you do raise some good points and what I am about to say is not intended to undermine your valid concerns.
I think the issue of trust (or lack of it) regarding John Key is more likely linked to his betrayal of non-Kiwis when he betrayed his voters by doing a turn on the Foreshore and Seabed Act and the abolition of the Maori seats.
Such a blatant betrayal of his loyal voters will see his numbers diminished in the upcoming election to the benefit of the Act Party, the only party prepared to say what most Kiwis think regardless of race. Gary Tayler NapierNo more cyclewaysI wish the Hastings District Council would stop painting cycleways on our streets. Every week new additions keep appearing, making our streets less safe for cyclists by ensnaring them within the hazardous vehicle, door entrapment zones. Such a pity, as this money could have instead been spent on decent off-road pathways wherever space allows.
G. M. Spooner, Hastings
MMP not problem
 With reference to Richard Edmunds' letter of June 22, the problem with STV is that it is FPP in drag.
All that happens under STV is that candidates are listed in preference in an electorate and not nationally.
Small parties would always have difficulty obtaining representation under this scenario - think Bob Jones' NZ Party (12 per cent of the popular vote) and good old Social Credit (23 per cent of the popular vote) in elections in the 1980s. How fair is that?
With regards to the comment that MMP is costing the NZ taxpayer dearly, this is a problem with the number of MPs and not MMP, and is something that could be adjusted without throwing out MMP.
Karl Gorringe, Napier