Letters: Help motorists check speedometers

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Reference on Saturday's front page (January 28) on speeding.

Rotorua seems to have no speed checking devices either fixed or portable in the area and one wonders just how many motorists could be confident that their speedometers read correctly?

No WOF or such does cover that factor and one could assume with many older vehicles on the roads that incorrect speedo reading may be contributing to the number of speeding fines being presently issued.

I believe the relevant authorities are duty bound to at least provide the motoring public in this area with the means to check their vehicles' speedometer as is the case in other centres in the North Island so as to avoid unwanted fines.

GERALD NEALE
Rotorua

Your columnists Tommy Wilson (aka Tommy Kapai) and Ms 'Lizzie Marvellously' [Marvelly] may appeal to more readers, and be better placed, on your Te Maori page in your paper.

In my opinion there would not be too many folks impressed to read such loaded and biased dissertations, laced with innuendo and anti-social (close to racial) journalism. Why must they live in the past and write indignantly over matters beyond current reality and expect to have the past retrialled in their honour?

I feel for our country's future wellbeing, social welfare and harmony if this is to be acceptable.

Living in the past and 'paying it forward' seems to some, as honouring the future! I see it as creative exploitation of our country.

By placing their contributions on the Te Maori page, it would reach far more interested readers - than among the reports and ruckus of our council's current "Animal Town" antics!

T. McCONKEY
Kawerau