Letters to the editor: No music section a shock

The Warehouse. Photo / File

I love my collection of LPs, CDs and tapes.

When I'm in The Warehouse I always head for the music section first. What a shock the other week - there wasn't a music section.

The LPs and CDs were gone. I enquired about this and was told that nationwide, Warehouse stores have done away with the music section.

People aged in their 70s I have spoken to used to love going into The Warehouse and having a look at the old CDs and LPs, often finding a bargain.

We have a new music store in Hinemoa St and another in Tutanekei St. I really hope they have good old rock 'n' roll CDs and LPs.

Clive Phillips
Selwyn Heights

Faster not slower

After spending time looking at the proposed new speed limits on some of Rotorua's arterial roads, I think the Rotorua Lakes Council website needs to be made clearer. Until you look at the map it is easy to miss that nearly all of Te Ngae Rd's speed limit is proposed to change from 60km/h to 50km/h.

This is a main arterial route and NZTA should be looking at ways to make the road safe to travel at faster speeds, not looking at how it can slow it down.

It is a wide road with good sight lines and there's a big distance from any houses to the road, so there is plenty of warning if a car is approaching the road from a driveway.

Our cars are safer than they have ever been and this simplistic and daft idea coming from NZTA that the best way to make things safer is to slow everyone down need to change.

Looking at the map on the RDC website there are at least 40 comments against the speed change and just one supporting it.

If it gets changed to 50km/h, it will in my view show that the consultation is just a farce.

David Carman
Hamurana

Compulsory purchase empty houses

National has the wrong idea for dealing with the housing crisis. It wants to build more houses and free up more land - that will not solve the problems.

We cannot build houses faster. There are not enough builders, not enough bricks, not nearly enough wood, not enough plumbers, electricians and carpenters, so who is going to build all these houses?

The only solution is the compulsory purchase of empty houses (in excess of 20,000) and to stop speculators investing in houses - no private landlords. Nothing else will work.

Jim Adams
Rotorua

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