Local sports missing out

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 9, Issue 386, 14 May 1991, Page 4

Local sports missing out

• It is disappointing to see (from last weeks Ruapehu Bulletin ) that the Waimarino is missing out on at least three of the traditional winter sports which are to be included in this years New Zealand Winter Games Programme Surely we have clubs in Raetihi and Ohakune with snooker and darts facilities. Or is it that these clubs' members and management do not realise the spin-off benefits of having many extra visitors (both competitors and spectators) using club facilities during the days of competition? And surely we have a local soccer team which could compete in the NZ Winter Games? I note from a report in another newspaper that there is in fact a Ruapehu soccer team (presumably from Ohakune or Raetihi) whose coach omits to furnish a similar report to the local newspaper. Could this attitude towards the local community (from whom his team is drawn) be the reason for Ohakune / Raetihi not being represented at soccer in the NZ winter games.

Puzzled

Free the carrot • Waimarino people are sitting back doing nothing while great injustices are being done right under their very noses - but it's time for action. OLORV is calling on all fighters against injustice to block the inhuman harvest of carrots in this part of the country. Did you know that carrots are deliberately being bred and raised for the sole purpose of slashing their heads off, brutally dragging them out of the ground only to be thrust into plastic bags for the consumption of ravenous city people. It's just not on - carrots have rights too! What is really despicable is that these "growers" (a sickening term considering they

are really killers of innocent vegetables) actually enjoy creating an ideal habitat for the carrot, nurturing them through their formative months, but then slaughter them. It's gone on too long - OLORV (Organisation for the liberation of Root Vegetables) has organised a day of action on the opening day of the carrot harvesting

season. We call on all veg-etable-thinking people to get out and block these barbarians on carrot harvest day - sure it means getting up at dawn before they get into their Swandris and gummies and head down to the my, my, er, their tractors. But something has to be done to protect the rights of carrots!

Donald Mallard

OLORV