Consultation on the latest funding proposal of the Tauranga Energy Consumer Trust and its endeavour to weave generosity into the fabric of the Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty regions, is leaving some beneficiaries of the trust more threadbare than others with the compulsory gift of 22.5 per cent of the potential rebate (formally the TECT cheque) and no provision for individual beneficiaries to receive their full entitlement.

I am sorry to being party to an earlier referendum being one of the 78.6 per cent who voted for 20 per cent of earnings to be gifted to charity and which has empowered the trustees to deprive a sector of beneficiaries their full entitlements.

David Mends, Te Puke