An artist's impression of the Hemo Rd roundabout sculpture. Photo / Rotorua Lakes Council
I really wish that the Rotorua Lakes Council would reconsider where the $500k 3D printed sculpture will be installed.
It will be extraordinary and I would like it to be in a place where I can have the time to appreciate it, and not just see it with peripheral vision
as I go around the Hemo roundabout.
I want to be able to stand near it, and really look at it.
The roundabout itself, with its multiple signs, needs our full attention. The sculpture in that place may create a dangerous distraction.
Delight Gartlein
Ngongotaha
Nessie mystery
The photograph of the Loch Ness Monster in Tuesday's Rotorua Daily Post (Nation, May 22) is the (in)famous "Surgeon's Photograph" of 1934, taken by a London surgeon supposedly visiting Loch Ness with two friends.
The secret of the photograph was revealed when the last surviving member of the trio involved confessed, decades later, that their "Nessie" was in fact a toy submarine to which they had attached a plasticine neck and head.
