Margaret Murray-Benge is sadly mislead if she thinks that Stuart Crosby does good (The Weekend Sun, October 8).

The true situation is that in July, Stuart, in his capacity as President of Local Government NZ (LGNZ) signed an agreement with the government over Three Waters reform which read (inter alia) Clause 4.2: 'LGNZ commits to supporting endorsing and promoting Three Waters Reform Programme.”

It is worth going on the website to read the rest of the 'agreement” as Stuart sells local government and its assets down the drain – or, more pertinently, allows them to be stolen.

If Margaret can be so easily fooled then so can others. For the record, Tauranga has had the best value and quality water in New Zealand since 1998 and has no need to upgrade. It is ratepayers that will be caught in Stuart's and the government's net and forced to pay for others upgrading. Remember the electricity reforms anyone?

Bill Faulkner, Tauranga.