HEADON STADIUM

We would refer to your article in the Chronicle dated October 11 and the heading Headon Stadium ‘unsafe’ to play in. We would dispute this and feel the heading is misleading. As a member of the Morning Social Badminton Club we have played every Tuesday morning from April this year and previous years and at no stage have we had an issue with condensation on the walls and dripping from the ceiling onto the courts. Also one of our members is a member of the Monday evening club and they support the above comments. We understand the dilemma the council is in, however, had the stadium been maintained regularly over the last 10 or so years we would not have the stadium in such a poor state of repair and we blame the council for the present situation. I would think there are other users of the stadium that would support our comments. There seems to be a strong lobby going on for a ‘‘state of the art sports facility’’ which possibly is required in Matamata but please not at the expense of some of the users of Pohlen Park and Headon Stadium.

-Beverley Hughes, on behalf of Morning Social Badminton Club planet by going away from plastic bags. Bring back the paper bag that will breakdown in land fill. Or use wheelie bins. Stop all plastic going to the tip. Plastic can be recycled.

The Chronicle published an article about council doing away with rate-paid rubbish bags, instead adopting the user pays approach that many councils across the country have already implemented. Here is what our readers had to say: rubbish bags. No, that idea is a bad move, I would not approve.