I really enjoyed Mr Dickinson’s thought provoking letter (The News April 4) and he was right to say that it is the people that make a place special.
I’ve never thought of us as being a stop off town but that’s probably because I live here. Sad to say, it would take a miracle for some people to put away evil practices, and there’s even a song from an old movie called South Pacific which tells of this. The very first verse says “You’ve got to be taught to hate and to fear you’ve got to be taught from year to year, it’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear, you’ve got to be carefully taught.”
I don’t believe we’ll ever be rid of evil, it’s how we respond to it that matters, whether we let it infect us, or whether we turn our backs on it to keep up the sound values that work within our souls from year to year. I have no desire to go roaming overseas as some people do.
Maybe Te Kuiti will always be a small town where people are happy to stop and grab fuel and a pie, given we’re just a valley with only hills left to build on for the most part, and who wants to build on a hill? Evil is found globally and the best we can do is to lock it up and throw away the key; then head on down for fish and chips!
A Graham
Te Kūiti
