Re: 'Waka shelter woe easily solved' (The Weekend Sun, May 23) $350,000 would build a rather large family home today, so forgive me if I'm in a bit of a quandary about the cost of building a boat shed for $350,000.

I'm thinking with no plumbing or sewage to lay, very little electrical wiring or connections, the cost would be much, much less.

Even though it'd be much less than building a museum for the general public, it's still extremely expensive for a debt-ridden Tauranga City Council to fork out to pacify a few hundred followers of a cult.

I have to ask, where is all this leading us to? When is it all going to stop? It's not doing the country any good.

Although, some in high places relish in citizens of NZ getting at each other's throats to camouflage their shenanigans. It's been evident for sometime.

But if we take the time to think about it, it will only lead to ruin and upset everyone's way of life - especially the way we wish to live in NZ.

The exact happened in Germany under Hitler's Nazism, setting one race against another until he completely and utterly ruined the country and all the people in it.
More or less it is like taking the bung out of a boat while at sea, where we can all drown. All this damn greed.

Well $350.000 for a Waka shed doesn't seem real to me, and makes me wonder what's going on?

Could a member of the council please explain? And please don't come back with the answer: 'That it was all a misunderstanding” and now it is only going to cost $250,000.
Even this amount would build a reasonable family-size home.

R Jones, Otumoetai.