This ‘Naki-ite takes exception to your so-called tongue in cheek column last week (Rogers Rabbits, February 15).

We could teach you BOPs a thing or two about decent restaurants, cafes, cycle and walkways, unpolluted rivers, majestic mountains, fresh clean air, a lack of traffic woes, reasonable housing costs and rents, consistent rainfall, beautiful public and private gardens and, more importantly, a council which listens to its ratepayers.

Of course the 'death ray” wind wand serves a purpose! It is aimed at those from the East and the North who wish to change this peaceful, attractive place into the bedlam from which they hail.

J Hasell, Katikati (recently moved from New Plymouth).