Letters: Credit to Raukawa-Tait for making sense

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait sounds fair and practical. Photo / File

I would just like to acknowledge Merepeka Raukawa-Tait.

I always look forward to her piece in the Rotorua Daily Post.

She is always a positive person and covers a wide range of topics. She doesn't pick on a set group of people and be completely negative about them.

We need someone like Merepeka running our city. She seems very practical and a fair person who would work well with our diverse community.

DEBBIE FREDRICKSEN
Mamaku

Elderly concert deserves better name

Could some enterprising soul with imagination please come up with a better title for the Mayoral Concert on Sunday October 15 than Concert for the Elderly.

It is a ghastly title!

Condescending, patronising, and humiliating. No person over 55, with or without a walking frame, crutch or stick should attend on principle.

Who is elderly these days anyway?

This age group is constantly being urged to get with it, offered the carrot of eternal youth, encouraged to run, dance, skip, exercise, cruise, hike - it never ends.

So can we please move with the times and rename this entertainment which, apart from its name, will no doubt be excellent.

A N CHRISTIE
Rotorua