Lake Manapouri
Sir, —If Mr Goosman believes that power development at Manapouri could bring in £40.000.000 a year in overseas funds, why did he support an agreement giving Comalco the water rights for 2s a kilowatt per annum, about £70.000 a year on Mr Goosman’s figures? What does Mr Goosman mean by “eventually” when he promises “a shore line eventually similar in all respects to that existing today”? Wave action might bring down slips whose debris could slowly form stony beaches, but some thousands of years of slipscarred slopes might fail to provide anything like the existing beaches And how I about the circular cove, or i any other natural boat harbours? Mr Goosman with all his bulldozers could not reproduce such formation, set in forest, nor does Mr Go'sman mean to try As for the sandy beaches, their reinstatement might possibly follow another ice age. which may be coming “eventually.” But when? —Yours, etc., ARTHUR LUSH. May 23. 1963. ' (The Minister of Works (Mr Goosman) said: “I do not think it advisable to enter into a newspaper controversy with your correspondent on this important subI ject.”]
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30145, 31 May 1963, Page 3
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