There is absolutely no need for any new museums anywhere in the world today. Wake up TCC and smell the coffee. Museums are now the dinosaurs of entertainment. One can visit almost any museum now online and many are 3D.

To think that a shipload of visitors would stay in the Mount just to go to the museum is the pinnacle of stupidity. People will probably get through such a museum in an hour so and then what would they do? The TCC is, and always has been, the spendthrift masters of NZ. The TCC does, and has always, lacked any sense to things fiscal.

Talk of a 40 per cent rate rise over a few years is outrageous. Many people will be rated out of their homes. I thought any rate rise over the cost of living had to rule by a binding referendum.

Please, everybody, write to these no-hopers and express your concerns about the rising rates in this district. We need absolutely everybody to refuse to pay the rates and let's see how they like being short of money.

I wish there were enough people in the area to oust these people at the next election. People just don't care. I asked for people to write to re setting up a group to oust them at the next election. I got three replies who I wrote to and never heard from them again. Come on Tauranga, wake up.

A Bourne, Bethlehem.