Prior to being elected Mayor of Tauranga, Mahé  Drysdale promised that he would relocate his family to Tauranga. Seven months have passed and his family is still in Cambridge.

Drysdale claims that he has been unable to find anything appropriate to purchase or even rent since July 20, 2024. This is a very long bow. How long is he going to carry on with this charade? Who is voting at the next election for a mayor who lies?

For a previously highly-motivated and very successful sportsman, this is simply not believable because if he dithered like this in his sporting career he would never have made the starting line on time. I know that he won Olympic gold medals sitting down going backwards, and history is repeating here. By the way, we are still waiting for a footpath in our street, which has never been one.

Dave Miller, Otūmoetai