I read with interest about how keen some people are to create more MPs in New Zealand's Parliament, using Tauranga and outlying areas to achieve it. Now would it be the income of nearly $200,000 as an MP that could be the main attraction?

How about volunteer MPs on the living wage? If they're so dedicated to serve. Is it 120 MPs for a country the size of NZ? They seem to do very little to solve the problems, like more than 200,000-plus children living below the poverty line, as said by the children's commissioner. Senior citizens go without medical and dental treatment, because they can't afford it, who are people who've worked and paid their tax share for many years.
So all we need to fix this is another bunch of caring MPs to solve problems.

We could always ask them to join the many thousands of our volunteers in the Tauranga area, who serve without holding their hands out for reward.

Ron Chamberlain, Otumoetai.