Be sure of your facts

Jim Bunny’s column titled ‘Naysayer central – kāo!’ in The Weekend Sun, May 19, 2023, doesn’t deserve a response other than to say the first thing a journalist should do is be sure of their facts before bursting into print.

Firstly, the Tauranga Croquet Club has many more members than 75.

Secondly, it is not the Croquet Club and all the other domain users dictating about what happens to the domain – it is four unelected Commissioners and a few Tauranga businessmen dictating that the ratepayers will fork out for their vanity project – not just in the coming few years but forever to cover the estimated $15 million a year (at today’s figures) to cover the cost of maintaining the ‘Boutique Stadium’.

G L Benvie, Matua.