NEW RAIL LINK
With the new government announcing a massive tree planting program with reestablishing the NZ Forest Service to be based in Rotorua, attention needs to be made on expanding the rail network in this region to carry the massive amount of forestry traffic.
There is much need for a rail line to be built into the Rotorua and Taupo regions to serve the large number of plantation pine forests and two large mills at Waipa and Taupo, to help reduce the high number of large heavy logging trucks on the roads in this region.
A new line between Kinleithrotorua-taupo would link all these forests, mills and a dairy factory at Reporoa together along one line and could also be used to carry general freight and tourists between Auckland-hamiltonmatamata-rotorua-taupo to help ease ever increasing traffic volumes on State Highways 1 and 5.
A line to Taupo would also have the potential to be electrified, being powered by the many new renewable geothermal power stations recently built in this region, helping the government to achieve its goal of reducing net carbon emissions to zero.
Moana Whakamarurangi says ‘‘ everyone deserves a home’’ [South Waikato News October 11].
Being the owner of three rental properties, I note that when a tenant leaves and we find extensive damage that’s deliberate, as a landlord I can assure we don’t feel as though everyone does deserve a home if they can’t make any effort to look after it.
Holes in the wall, doors ripped off the hinges, stains on brand new carpet, piles of rubbish left behind, mould everywhere that no-one has bothered to clean indicate they don’t care.
Every rental that we own we have lived in prior to renting them out and we have had no mould problems ourselves.
So why, as a landlord, should we care about giving these people a home. And the bond they pay goes nowhere to paying for damages despite how deprived the tenant feels when they don’t get it back.
On balance we have had good tenants where we have been happy to refund the full bond.
Catherine Kemp makes reference to six people living in a two bedroom home and there being more than one definition to