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Letters: Rotorua Council excellence awards challenged

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25 Jun, 2018 03:35 PM2 mins to read

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Rotorua's Te Aka Mauri Library and Children's Health Hub was among the Rotorua Lakes Council's award entry. Photo/file

Rotorua's Te Aka Mauri Library and Children's Health Hub was among the Rotorua Lakes Council's award entry. Photo/file

I read that our city council has applied for some excellence awards. (Council's 'cutting-edge' strategies make award finals, June 14).

Looking around our city, I wonder what the awards could be for?

Is the unused cycle way through the city something to be proud of?

Is it for the way they bulldozed our City Focus?

Is it for a half million dollars ornament for the centre of a roundabout?

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Perhaps it is for the fact that our ever increasing overdraft has reached a new height?

Perhaps it is for our rates increase. Can somebody tell me?

Harry Brasser
Rotorua

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Not happy with award recognition

With reference to the claim that Rotorua council is due an award for "breathing new life" into the city of Rotorua (Council's 'cutting-edge' strategies make award finals, June 14).

What a joke.

It is a city of empty shops and derelict amenities.

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Where is the theatre? Where is the museum? Where is the Lakeside cafe and theatre?

Rotorua is the city of lost opportunity and for that alone, the Rotorua Lakes Council should be sacked and the mayor hung out to dry.

Jim Adams
Rotorua

Yellow Pages not wanted

I have tried to opt out online from the Yellow Pages for the last two years.

Last year I ran across the road and gave it back to the deliverer. I returned from town today and there it was waiting for me. If I want to know something I Google.

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It's going straight in my recycle bin along with the plastic bag it comes in.

Some businesses need to listen to me and respect my wishes.

Lesley Haddon
Rotorua

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