The Star: August 08, 2019

22 The Star Thursday August 8 2019
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OPINION
The coming week in our history
August 8, 1915 – The high
point of the New Zealand
effort at Gallipoli, the attack
on Chunuk Bair underlined
the leadership qualities of
Lieutenant-Colonel William
Malone. Two columns of
the New Zealand Infantry
Brigade carried out the attack,
which began on August 6.
The operation started well,
but delays meant not all the
infantrymen had reached
Rhododendron Spur by the
time the assault on the summit
started next morning. After the
Auckland Battalion tried and
failed, Malone insisted that the
Wellingtons’ attack should be
delayed until after nightfall.
August 9, 1930 – George
Nepia, 25, played his last game
for the All Blacks, the final game
of the home series against the
British Lions. The All Blacks
won the match 22–8 to clinch
the series 3–1. Nepia was one
of the stars of the 1924–25 All
Blacks, dubbed the ‘Invincibles’.
He played in all 32 matches on
the team’s tour of the British
Isles, France and Canada.
August 10, 1840 – The
British asserted authority over
Akaroa before HMS Britomart
arrived at Akaroa, a week before
a shipload of French colonists
landed there. The ship’s captain
raised the Union Jack to confirm
British sovereignty over the area.
In 1838 the commander of the
French whaling ship Cachalot
made a dubious land purchase
from Māori on Banks Peninsula.
The Nanto-Bordelaise Company
was formed in France with the
goal of establishing a settlement
at Akaroa. In 1839 King
Louis-Philippe agreed to provide
assistance. Captain Charles
François Lavaud, the French
representative for the settlement,
sailed for New Zealand in April
1840. A month later, the Comte
de Parisset set off for Akaroa
carrying 53 emigrants.
August 13, 2005 - New
Zealand’s youngest prime
minister of the
20th-century,
David Lange,
died aged 63.
Renowned for
his sharp wit
and oratory, he
led the fourth
Labour government from 1984
to 1989.
August 14, 2011 – New
Zealand’s heaviest snowfall in
decades closed airports and
schools, forced the cancellation
of buses and trains, caused
electricity blackouts and cut off
many communities across the
country.
Judge has duty to protect public
Readers respond to a
decision by Judge Raoul
Neave not to impose
a prison sentence on
Marcel Sydney Geros
(right) after another
cowardly attack on a
vulnerable individual
Peter F Coleman – Judge
Raoul Neave’s statements point
to either, his own “creative”
solution, or a lax, jaundiced,
socialist justice system, or both.
If he expected there might be
a backlash in his decision on
sentencing Marcel Geros, then
perhaps the majority of people
know what the correct decision
should be.
He is turning his back on
vulnerable people in our
community, and if there is
no backlash, there should be.
However, I suspect, many
have become apathetic to judicial
decisions using restorative
techniques that emphasise
leniency at the expense of
victims, and their family. Setting
him free, albeit with supervision,
still allows the distinct
possibility of more assaults to be
committed.
It is ridiculous that the judge
thinks that imprisonment and
post-release conditions will do
nothing to address community
safety issues.
If he is jailed for these vicious
assaults, surely ordinary lawabiding
citizens can feel safe for
the time he is away. This judge
has a duty to protect the public
from serious bodily attacks.
Deliberate neglect of his duty
to his fellow citizens effectively
means he should resign.
Gary Tibbotts: It’s obvious
the good judge does not
remember Louisa Damodran
and Peter Holdem. Too late
afterwards saying I didn’t know
what to do when some wife or
husband lose their loved one.
Thinking outside the square
is fine, but it doesn’t involve
stupidity.
Roy Sinclair –
Congratulations on the opinion
piece in last week’s The Star.
Geros had already served a
lengthy prison term for other
crimes that obviously did him, or
society, little good.
Obviously, another approach
was an option. I have a colleague
who worked for the parole
board, he told me there is a small
number of hapless cases in the
prison system. Those are beyond
help. But he has seen some
remarkable turnarounds – some
from violent offenders.
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