Letters: A few wrinkles never hurt anybody

I am bored with blondes and their perfect teeth, says one letter writer.

I felt I could not allow Sonya Bateson's editorial on cosmetic surgery to pass without comment.

Although I have never met you I am sure you have the loveliness of youth. So what if you are approaching 30 and wrinkles are appearing? They only add character to your face and attest to your growing maturity.

Personally, I am bored with blondes and their perfect teeth with no character at all in their look-alike features.

Cosmetic surgery is fine for obvious disfigurements, but please let us not become Americanised and put our bodies through unnecessary stress.

Embrace those harmless wrinkles. They only add to your charm.

A N Christie
Rotorua

Spreading of rates
In response to John Pakes' letter (June 5), criticising Mark Gould's expression of concern of lowering the UAGC and the effect it would have on increasing rates for those owning higher value properties in the city, it was not, in my opinion, a promotion of wealth by Mark Gould as John Pakes would lead us to believe.

Rather a spreading of the rates pool in a fair and equitable manner. If John wants to talk about the haves and have-nots, many lake district property owners have no rubbish collection, stormwater, sewerage or water utilities provided by the council.

Yet some of these residents are charged the highest residential rates in the Rotorua district.

I hope the council acts in a responsible manner with the rates review in July 2019. The council can't treat ratepayers as a bank, where they hand you an umbrella in fair weather and then ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Tracey McLeod
Rotorua