“Time to bring in the dog to reduce crime,” I am reading on the front page of our local paper, THE NORTHLAND AGE. (Tuesday, May 7, 2013)

KAWAKAWA IS A TOURIST MAGNET – THE VINTAGE RAILWAY

There is a staff shortage at the KAWAKAWA police station and at the KAITAIA police station and it is difficult for the police to get on top of  burglaries and wilful damage.

Calls to the KAWAKAWA police station  don’t go further than the answerphone. (The Northland Age, Thursday, May 9, 2013)

But business people and residents in both towns are working towards reducing crime.

“SOW FOR YOURSELVES RIGHTEOUSNESS, REAP THE FRUIT OF UNFAILING LOVE, AND BREAK UP THE UNPLOUGHED GROUND; FOR IT IS TIME TO SEEK THE LORD, UNTIL HE COMES AND SHOWERS RIGHTEOUSNESS ON YOU,”  we are reading in Hosea 10:12

And in Isaiah 65:24 we read, “Before they CALL I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.”