Re: ‘No savings from amalgamation' (The Weekend Sun, letters page 16, April 8).

Margret Murray-Benge suggests that elected representatives are the ‘servants of those who elected them'.

I would beg to differ, surely they are the representatives of all of the voters in their electorate?

I may disagree with whomever I have voted for, but I expect them to represent the interests of the whole community – not just a narrow segment.

Mayor Webber's job and responsibility is to put his own personal preferences to one side and talk as the representative of the whole of the Western Bay of Plenty and to say what he thinks is in their best interests.

J Fitter, Maketu.