Law and order
Sir.—l am anti-tour. I am also very conscientiously lawabiding. ‘ Between the two I have learnt a strong sympathy for the Maori elders over the Bastion Point matter. When they constrained their fellows to comply with law and order they feared lest this be construed as their being now satisfied with how the matter stood. Far from it, they warned. Till then they had not observed
peaceful protest receive any attention. They hoped for change. It is how I have observed it too. As long as peaceful then so long ignored, sometimes even contemptuously so. I noticed on a recent TV news slot that nothing had been done about the Bastion Point matter since it was trusted to our lawful processes except that non-Maori interests were again given a go-ahead about something without any Maori body being consulted. I think anti-tour folk are due for very strong assurances along with the calls to observe law and order. — Yours, etc., ALEX WATSON. July 29, 1981.
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