Re: The disabled not catered for in council's tsunami plans.

After the delivery fiasco last year - or non-delivery I should say - I read through the council's new attempt very carefully. Directions were given to walk to the assembly points.

Is the council not aware that quite a number of people are able to walk only a short distance or not at all?

Thinking that the instructions for the disabled such as myself had been omitted in error, I rang the council offices March 19 to speak to the Manager, Emergency Management - but of course he was in a meeting so I asked to speak to someone on the council's recently formed Committee for the Disabled with the same result.

I was told both of the messages I left to contact me would be given to the people concerned.

Surprise, surprise! I never heard from anyone, so I phoned again on April 7 and was once more assured the messages to phone would be passed on. I'm still waiting for some sort of contact from the council.

I would like to know if there are any plans to cater for the disabled in the event of a tsunami, or is the whole thing at the bottom of the ‘too hard' basket, or would they like us to just go away and not bother them?

MB McClure, Papamoa.

TCC was offered a right of reply but did not respond to The Weekend Sun.