Tell us your views

❚ Not sure where this quote came from but it seems quite apt in today’s New Zealand. ‘‘If you choose to live in the past, you will be forever haunted by it."

❚ Forgive me for thinking Kirsty Lawrence had submitted an extract from a dramatic novel for publication in your paper. It certainly read like one.

❚ There is no hate speech in New Zealand. There is opinionated speech. There is a big difference.

❚ I believe quite a few people are missing the point re text about teachers. The original texter insinuated that teachers get more time off and home early etc. I am stating simply that they do not.

❚ Ma¯ori in schools should be optional, not compulsory. What good is it for people who won’t use

it. You are better off to learn Japanese. Optional also. Think about it. Rabas

❚ What a laugh, a special prison for Ma¯ori only. It will be like a junket like so many other Ma¯ori-only institutes at taxpayers’ expense. Separatism. You mean racism, Pcstyle.

❚ Why have we not heard from the Jets since the season finished?

❚ Several people from Pah¯ıatua were omitted from the phone directory. We rang to complain, but no satisfaction.

❚ To me, gang members are just weak-minded people who can’t make it through life on their own and decline to join a religious group for Christian guidance. Send brief texts to 021 064 0009