Your say: Was SBW disrespectful?

A read says Sonny Bill Williams is a magnificent athlete but to to do what he did was demeaning to the All Blacks team and their win. Photo: Getty

Today's letters to the editor talk about Hundertwasser, the CBD bus loop proposal and why Sonny Bill was disrespectful by giving his medal away.

It doesn't add up

Prior to the Hundertwasser referendum the Deloittes feasibility study projected an estimate of 140,000 plus visitors per year and a $500,000 surplus by the 10th year of operation ($520,000 in the Referendum Brochure), jobs, tourism.

Now the pro Hundertwasser councillors have had to push through a commitment to a $1 per annum lease agreement for the Harbourboard building to encourage funding for the project.

Are the projections now coming under some scrutiny? Something doesn't add up.

Keith McIntyre, Whangarei

On board with CBD bus idea

What a brilliant idea, Don Coutts! A 20-seater bus doing a constant loop around the CBD, Okara, Town Basin, Porowini etc as suggested by you is a fantastic concept and one we hope will be taken up.

This way, each area of our city gets a bite at the cherry and a real boon for tourists too.

Let's hope the powers that be 'get on board'!

L and S Caley, Kamo

Sonny Bill was disrespectful

What an awesome team the All Blacks are. Congratulations to the team and management on the incredible rugby they played during the World Cup.

However, one team member angered me with his actions after the presentation of the medals.

When a young boy ran out on to the pitch and was tackled by a security guard, Sonny Bill Williams picked him up and took him back to his mother.

Then he gave him his winning World Cup medal! He then said on TV that the medal was better around the young boys neck than hanging on the wall.

What a disgrace after having just been presented with one of the most sought after medals in world sport.

This young boy should not have been on the pitch anyway. The media seem to think his actions were very generous. Sonny Bill is a magnificent athlete but to to do what he did was demeaning to the All Blacks team and their win.

Kim Biddles, Dargaville

Just part of life

The recent letters relating to belief systems; Christian and atheist in particular, have had a good airing and I think the editorial team at Advocate have been unbiased in their selective process.

I would like to offer a quote from the secular American novelist D F Wallace who appears to have a reasonable attitude on the subject.

"[In] the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God to worship ... is that pretty much everything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things." (Commencement Address to Kenyon College, 2005)

Malcolm Ford, Whangarei

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