Bill Dalton

I am making these notes on Tuesday night – for my radio piece on Wednesday – because I am so bloody angry.I have had a good day. A solid days work – a meeting of the Colenso High School Charitable Trust – a couple of gins with Charlie Black – down to the restaurant to hear Shirley and Buddy Collins sing – and now home at 9pm.

And I have just looked at tonight’s paper and my blood boils. There is poor old John Harlow – one of natures gentlemen – looking understandably shattered because some scum-bags have been in and created havoc in Napier’s Bluff Hill cemetery – a cemetery that John Harlow is passionate about and a cemetery that he spends a large part of his life looking after.

Who are these scum-bags? Who are these morons who go out and destroy the beautiful things that Napier provides?

Some of the beautiful Pohutakawa trees planted along our foreshore have been ripped out. Poor old Tony Reid would be appalled. He fought like hell to have those trees planted and sadly he is no longer here to protect them.

The Rotary Pathway lights were damaged so new heavy duty ones were put in. These wankers of the night came back with pick-axes and destroyed the new ones. The lights are now gone.

How do we – the humble ratepayers – cope with this willful destruction?

Napier is one of the most attractive cities in New Zealand. That’s not Bill Dalton’s theory – it is the view of thousands of tourists who pass through our city every year. Imagine what our city could look like if we didn’t have this sub-species crawling around the streets, looking to destroy all that is good.

So what’s the solution?

In my view we need to act. We need to set traps. I would be the first to volunteer to lie in wait for these dregs of society – to capture them and hand them over to the authorities.

And then we need laws and a judicial system that will protect the rights of decent law abiding citizens. We need to punish the perpetrators of these crimes against us all and we need to punish them severely. Flogging is too good for them.

It is time we – the humble ratepayers – took a stand.

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