Letters to the editor: Reserve lakefront development judgment until its complete

Rotorua's lakefront re-development. Photo / NZME

Tracey McLeod's criticisms of the first stage of the lakefront development (Letters, July 14) are in stark contrast to the near-unanimous positive comments quoted in Felix Desmarais' report of July 13.

I don't imagine that her feelings are shared by the many families and couples that appeared to be enjoying the path when I have visited it.

Most of her criticisms simply reflect that this first stage is still raw and that the landscaping is a work in progress. More importantly, it is only the first stage of a multi-stage project. Perhaps we should all reserve judgment until the whole project is complete.

(Abridged)

Keith Garratt
Rotorua

Playing God not man's role

I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for some of the seemingly unexplainable actions of, well, just people really.

Nurses who are overworked and underpaid, being refused what seems a reasonable increase, returnees, who've travelled, aware of the risks, being granted taxpayer-funded isolation on their return from Australia, and then David Attenborough not intervening when a lion cub is killed by a rival male who has taken over the role of escort to this male cub's mum.

Attenborough's documentary attempts to depict nature as naturally as possible so intervention is out of the question.

But then a perfectly natural occurrence at Plimmerton where a baby Orca is stranded in a rock pool elicits a flood of compassion that extends to transporting this poor mammal at great expense to safer waters, feeding it and searching by the local aeroclub for his family to reunite them.

Why do we react emotionally only sometimes and not allow nature its role? Playing God is not the role of man!

John Williams
Ngongotaha

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