Txt the editor

■ Children learn to walk by copying their parents. In the same way they learn to read. If they don’t see you reading and if they don’t hear you read to them don’t blame the teachers if they can’t read.

■ Devastated that a death occurred

at speedway that gives so much to the spectators and Palmy as a whole. Sympathy to family in speedway community.

■ Maybe MS could publish the list of ‘‘common’’ te reo words used, completed with translations, so we can all learn them. Thanks.

■ MOT and the NZ police will never get to zero car deaths with all their talk and TV ads, it’s just a part of

life.

■ Criminal offenders as young as 11, they are old enough to know right from wrong and should be prosecuted as adults. M.

■ Kia ora. Why does the PNCC continue to use the meaningless mountain-shaped upside down green V? Did the out-of-town designers mix up Palmerston North and New Plymouth when they

came up with the logo which makes no sense for our city?

■ It’s not ‘‘profit’’ increasing rents, it’s the untenable QV hikes in land values, followed joyfully by councils increasing property rates! J