to the Editor

Taupo Times, Volume 20, Issue 4, 19 January 1971, Page 9

to the Editor

Dear Sir, What has happened to the peaceful society we once knew? Many people like myself live alone - yet we are tormented by prowlers who delight in trying our doors at some unknown hour of the night. ) What have we done to deserve such pettiness and inconsideration? Please — leave us old ladies alone; we ask only for some peace in our "age" of only a few years left. (Play your pranks elsewhere).

Jesper

TAUPO. Dear Sir, Whilst holidaying at Mount Maunganui I purchased a child s paperback hook costing 29c. When I returned to Taupo I found the same books costing 40c. Then at a well known chain store the same books were 13c each. Can anybody explain the discrepancy in price?

Marie Cochrane

(Age 1 1) Taupo. Dear Sir, I would like publicly to thank and compliment the Taupo Borough Council for their foresight in laying out the Lakeside Park and the new A.C. pools that is, in charging high enough rates to do this, too. Would the council consider now calling the baths "The Blue and Green A.C. Pools?" Although the Armed Constabulary origin of the the hot swimming pool is publicised quite frequently, I was recently asked by a New Zealand-born professor of history what A.C. stood for. Blue and Green respectively the two swimming pools are and these colours have attractive associations. It S only a matter of "advertising" their attractions. I have paid Taupo rates for 35 years.

M.W.S.

Tauranga.