Needs not wants
The environment is cramped, with books on the floor and lack of space – but residents continue to join and use the Cambridge library. Photo: Mary Anne Gill
Waipa District Council has more than $330 million in largely capricious debt. We don’t need town clock renovations, new toilets, cycleways, town hall upgrades, to lose carparks to PC “traffic calming” or to replace park timber bollards with recycled plastic ones. Nor do we need a new library. Country town Cambridge didn’t ask to be grotesquely distorted through growth, in order to fund council spending addictions. Similarly, rate payers didn’t ask for the extra books that came with the traffic jams and a larger population. Simply sell/dispose of the 5000 least used books and make do – like the rest of us in the real world.
Shaun Robinson
Cambridge
