Urban Sprawl
Sir, —How stupid can one get? In recent months we have had visitors from overseas, men who know what they are talking about, mostly leaders of world organisations. All emphasise that the next generation’s worst problem will be how to grow enough food, and where. New Zealand could and should be able to grow most of her own if steps are taken to stop cutting up vast areas into housing projects. The Christchurch Town Planning Committee has allowed vast areas of beautiful fertile wheat-growing, grazing, and foodgrowing land to be built on. Yet the useless lower slopes of all the Port Hills are left barren. A bigger joke still: it is made a green belt. Why? The powers that be should wake up now while there is still time to look to the future’s food problems.—Yours, etc WAKE UP. April 8, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29177, 11 April 1960, Page 3
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