Squash courts licence supported

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 474, 23 February 1993, Page 4

Squash courts licence supported

• • I have been a mem- • ber of five different • squash clubs over a pe0 riod of nearly 20 years • and I have never seen the • young people brought up • in the club in drink-re- " lated trouble within the 0 club and only very rarely • outside the club. • I've seen that a sport • such as a squash club is a 0 great place for kids to • grow up with lots of • parental control, mixed • with some liquor in a • very controlled envi0 ronment. It's far better • than the kids cutting • loose when they finally get out of home. It makes

no differcncc where the club is, it is the way it is run that counts. There are other squash clubs in New Zealand working perfectly well in the same way as the Ohakune situation. I think a head-in-the-sand attitude like P J Chapman seems to have is more responsible for ihe tcenage drinking problem than

sporting clubs.

AK

Pratt

Theft from God • Once into a small town came a good man and his wife. They had been sent into this town on a mission to help people. As they looked around they could see that many people were being oppressed by their economic and social circumstances and they worked night and day to try to help them. They organised food parcels, visited the sick and depressed, even

started a committee to provide a rest-home for the old people, so that they wouldn't be forced to leave the place they had lived in all their lives. Realising that humanly they were limited, they organised a prayer chain to appeal to their God for the people in circumstances that they were unable to do anything about. In fact they worked so long and so hard that they very nearly killed themselves. Unfortunately in this town their also lived some people who cared

for no-one but themselves. These people thought it their right to take whatever they saw for themselves, regardless of who it belonged to or who they hurt in the process and as this good man and his wife tried to get their lives back into order after treading on the very threshold of death, these people invaded their home and robbed them. As many people in that town could attest, for someone to invade your home is the most devastating thing that can happen and it takes many months, sometimes years to come to terms with. For these people were not discriminating in the people they plundered, anyone was fair game for their dirty sneaky little tricks.

Would this little band of petty thieves walk through a grave-yard at midnight or defy God to strike them dead? I think not, yet they would rob the servants of the living God and therefore God himself. Please, I appeal to you for your own safety, return what you have taken if you can and turn from your wickedness. The book these people live by says in Nahum chapter 1 verse 3 that the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished but it also says in 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 9 that he is patient and not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Shame, shame I know your name!