On TV3's The Nation last weekend, there was a report on the Mayor and Council in Otorohanga.

They have turned around the problem of unemployed youth in town, by working in close co-operation with all the aspects of the problem and together with employers in the town and their college, they have reached a stage where the bureaucrats have now withdrawn some funding, because of the success of the scheme. (Typical dumb logic of course.)

My question: Otorohanga is not that far away. It must have been known about before this, so why have we not explored it, with a view to starting the same scheme in some way or another, here?

R McGuinness, Tauranga.