If V. Richardson ‘Do you homework' (The Sun, May 30) had taken the trouble to carefully read my letter, they'd be aware it wasn't Tauranga City Council I was criticising for their indebtedness - even though it's shocking - but the audacity of Maori who asked for $350,000 to build a shelter for the waka on The Strand. I, quite rightly, suggested Maori build it themselves using money from the very generous amount gifted to local iwi to settle alleged wrongs. Would it be too much to ask what iwi have done with $38 million?
Building the shelter would be a drop in the ocean.

M Brooks, Tauranga City.

Editor's note:

The wharewaka project has been set back one year. It will now be included in general discussion of the waterfront redevelopment in the Ten Year Plan. Tauranga City Council made the decision in this week's 2014/2015 annual plan deliberations.