Letters: Council's job to sort out rubbish dumping

DUMPED: Rubbish dumped on a country road south of Rotorua included a dead dog, which has been pixelated. PHOTO/SUPPLIED

One thing that the Rotorua Daily Post's readers' letters are most vocal on is the increasing traffic congestion in our town and littering blight.

Despite citizens spending millions on councillors/officers one has to ask the question are they a waste of time or do they really know what they are doing? Because my urban environment and news reports tell me otherwise.

Then to top it off a local councillor offers to gift one of us $500 out of his own pocket for pimping on neighbours who are littering when all they have to do is ring their council?

Should he be "putting a torch", as one councillor so eloquently put it, under the chief council officer instead of carrying on like a vigilante?

Council has powers under the Litter Control Act to force landowners to clean up litter on their land, to instantly fine litterers, to prosecute offenders and educate us all on this issue.

Our local council is cajoling us to make submissions to our annual plan; going on the looming traffic congestion and littering crisis which is so obvious, what is the point?

JOSEPH GIELEN
Rotorua

Case of lost luggage
My wife and I returned from Christchurch yesterday.

We found that our suitcase had missed the flight. We advised Air New Zealand at the airport of this. The lady who we reported to could not have been more helpful.

As we live out in the country I said that I would come and collect it when it arrives.

Imagine our surprise to get a phone call later in the evening from Air New Zealand to say that the courier will come to our home with the suitcase.

Well that's service over and above what we would have expected. Thank you Air New Zealand and thanks also to the courier.

DEREK PACKHAM
Lake Tarawera