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    LETTER OF THE MONTH

    May 19, 2022 4 minutes

    WE NEED THE WHOLE STORY

    I would like to tautoko (support) Tania Rae’s ideas (‘There’s something missing from the Great Walks’, April 2022).

    As a Kiwi doing one of the Great Walks, I was profoundly uncomfortable with the one-sided narrative being delivered by the DOC wardens. The passion, aroha (love) and manaaki (care) shown by these wardens are abundantly clear; the blame lies not with them but with the poor support offered to them by DOC.

    I was left feeling that these nightly talks were a wasted opportunity. Pre-Covid, when the huts were full of overseas visitors, these stories of

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