The ongoing cost of removing the Rena is hard to stomach.
Is it not time for compromise - let's cut a deal with the Rena owners and leave the remainder of the ship on the reef for underwater clubs, and get the Rena owners to front up with a cash endowment?
While there may be moral and cultural issues at stake by leaving the wreck on the reef, there is right now the opportunity to finally start a fund for a sensible and safe Bay of Plenty Museum building site where Maori and European artifacts, history and culture can be given a home with the assistance and acknowledgement to the Rena owners.
If by some chance this passing thought were to come about, then old silly siting issues would resurface, but at least a real building may materialise after the bickering?
CS Adams, Tauranga.
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CS Adams
Posted on 22-02-2013 17:04 | By YOGI
Oh mate you are confused ehre, the $11 million compo to leave the Rena on the reef is paid to the Government. So little chance to waste that money already spent on a silly museum and anyway what arefacts exist that would merit spending $11 million oh no more like $20-30 million according to the Museum lovers brigade if they have their way in it all. In fact they are lining up to feast off ratepayers for that and likely some $4-5 million a year for what?
no thanks
Posted on 23-02-2013 09:37 | By Captain Sensible
Museum....no thanks. Here's a newsflash - the TCC have got us over $400 million in debt through incompetence. Museums cost money and us ratepayers will get the bill. Besides, all the PC lies will be embraced by any museum round here and in my book, museums should be factual, not PC brainwashing institutions.
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