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OPINIONS OF OUR READERS. THE TOKANUI INCIDENT. Sir, —I noticed in your issue of Monday, 12th October, that the Rev. Cqldham-Fussell stated your correspondents are attacking him and not his words. Did he not attack the individual in his opening blast, when he referred to their "depraved minds'? Accordingly it would be logic if he fired down Alexandra Street and killed someone, to blame his rifle; his statement is absurd. I feel sure that no person at Tokanui had the slightest intention of blaspheming anything that the church holds sacred. Surely it is the spirit behind a deed that counts most; it is the easiest thing in the world to make evil ot .any act whatever; it depends on the mind of the individual. It, in the opinion of the vicar, the staff at Tokanui had wronged, I think there was a more Christ-like method for an “ambassador ot God” to correct, and maybe save, those “pool unfortunate sinners” than by holding them up for public ridicule. —I am, etc., BROAD-MINDED.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3821, 14 October 1936, Page 5
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