It's great that Trustpower has revived the Christmas Parade, but other than that Tauranga City doesn't really do Christmas!

Just an unimpressive Christmas tree tucked away down by the sound shell, well away from the retail hub where it could be enjoyed as people go about their Christmas shopping.

Other towns have decorations and lighted stars around lamp posts, garlands and lights across streets. Year after year Tauranga has nothing beyond the lone Christmas tree. Isn't it time we did better than that if we want to create a real Christmas atmosphere to draw the crowds into New Zealand's fifth largest city? Perhaps Mainstreet could start thinking about this for next Christmas!

Maureen Guy, Otumoetai.