Re: The Weekend Sun ‘Museum getting nowhere fast' (August 28).

If Graeme Purches is so keen to criticise TCC, the Mayor and the Tauranga Moana Museum Trust for lack of action over a museum, perhaps he would like to raise the necessary money himself. He must have plenty of contacts in big business he could approach.

Admittedly the trust is struggling but it is not easy to raise money these days for 'nice to have projects”. I agree with the trust looking at alternative feasible sites rather than sticking with the Cliff Road site. It was suggested the art gallery be sited alongside the proposed museum.

Why move the gallery? Why not site any proposed museum alongside the current art gallery right in town convenient to public transport? Is this too logical? There is no point in appointing a new trust as it will encounter the same problems as the current trust. Finally there is no way that Tauranga ratepayers will agree to pay for an unnecessary white elephant such as a museum.

R Bailey, Papamoa