Some excellent points are raised in this week's letters.
Amongst them, John Coster spells out some of the reasons why the historic village isn't suitable as a museum site.
Sure it's a nice, quaint corner of the city and many of us are quite attached to it.

But there are some compelling reasons why it will never be a suitable site for development, at least, not economically.
It's sometimes easy to forget the practical reasons that decisions are made around our city – especially when emotional attachments tend to cloud the issue. Thanks to John for raising these points.
Also a note of appreciation to all our letter writers, most of a very high calibre and although not everyone will agree with what they have to say, their opinions are respected and stimulates healthy debate. We had such a flood of letters this week that we haven't been able to print all.
A reminder to please keep them to a couple of hundred words or less, so we can hopefully fit everyone in.
We'll lay on some extra pages next week to catch up with the backlog. So if yours hasn't appeared, we'll try to make amends next week. If it's long, it might be good to give it a trim and re-submit. That will improve its chances.

Happy Birthday
It's also worth noting this week the anniversary of the launch of the stunning daily news website, SunLive.
That's right, it's a whole year since
www.SunLive.co.nz went live, bringing you daily, hourly local news reports. It's the most up to the minute news service the Bay has ever seen.
Our reporters at No.1 The Strand newsroom are busy seven days a week, 24 hours a day in some cases, to bring you the fastest, sharpest and most user-friendly news service in the country.
SunLive recently was awarded the Best News Website award by the Community Newspapers Association – an accolade our news team thoroughly deserve.
If you haven't experienced SunLive yet, jump online and check it out.
We're growing in readers every day as people of the Bay and beyond discover a better way to get their daily news.
Updated constantly through the day, you can join for free to get the headlines emailed every lunchtime, and that also gets you breaking news alerts, so you'll never miss an important news event in our region.
Happy first birthday, SunLive, and thanks to our rocketing number of readers and fans out there who follow the SunLive news and send us news tips, photos and videos. www.sunlive.co.nz

Bedroom frustration
There are some people in the world who have a lot to answer for. One of them is the person who invented the duvet. For starters, we struggle with the spelling.
It always pays to regard with the greatest suspicion, anything with a French name and has a silent T at the end. We all know how much trouble words like bidet have gotten us into over the years.
The reason Mr Duvet needs a public flogging (or Mrs Duvet, as the case may be) is these inventions were sent to drive us mad.
How many of you have reached sleepy bedtime, trudged to the bedroom, only to find that the duvet outer has been washed, and the innards have to be put back in? Then follows an arm wrestling match to try to fit the uncompromising duvet inner inside the stubborn, sinister duvet outer. And it doesn't matter how you hold the corners, fluff the middle or other tricky ideas learnt from the helpful homemaker websites or text books such as ‘Duvet Stuffing For Dummies' the innards just clearly never want to fit properly into those corners. Then, when you think it might be close enough, you discover a small acreage the size of Texas down one side that either has excessive crammed duvet inner syndrome; or a flappy side with no sign of insulative material that wouldn't warm a Biafran.
Whatever happened to the good old days when we slept under non-French quilts, eiderdowns or the ubiquitous candlewick bedspreads?
They were simple to use and even easier to spell. Not a silent T in sight.