BOP Tourism continues to be a force unto themselves. Funded by the council, which really means the rate-paying public of Tauranga, they become very tight-lipped when asked for information regarding expenditure.

A simple request to find out the cost of the temporary i-Site office at Mount Maunganui has met with a number of excuses from Kristin Dunne. 'We do not just hand out financial information to third parties” among them. It would appear that BOPT has something else to hide.

Could it be that they have wasted way too much money on this i-Site considering they have spent a fortune on the information monster on the dock?

It's a shame that an organisation such as BOPT, which is funded by public money, cannot advise a member of the public on how they spend the money they are gifted. Surely the time has come for the existence of BOPT to be questioned. It appears to me that they are wasting money. Shame on them.

P Morris, Mount Maunganui.