RE: G Purches' letter ‘A little knowledge is a dangerous thing' (The Weekend Sun, June 17).

It is a fact that R Patterson researches material for his letters carefully. G Purches should cast his mind back a few years.

Tauranga City Council employed a museum and artefacts expert to inspect and report on the ‘artefacts' in storage.

The report stated 75 per cent of the ‘artefacts' stored should either be returned to the donors or dumped. Have these ‘artefacts' secretly been replaced with items of value since then?

TCC should go to the ratepayers and ask whether a museum is warranted before making any museum decisions. G Purches appears keen to spend other people's money on unnecessary costly projects, in fact anything he is involved with.

It also appears he does not like any opinion contrary to his own.

Well I can say now he will be one candidate that would not get my vote in October, even if I was in his ward.

R Bailey, Papamoa.