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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32209, 30 January 1970, Page 2

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SAVE MANAPOURI! PUBLIC MEETING TONIGHT 8 P.M. CANTERBURY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY HALL 151 CAMBRIDGE TERRACE • CHAIRMAN: DEPUTY-MAYOR, MR H. P. SMITH • SPECIAL SPEAKER: Mr R. J. McLEAN, INVERCARGILL Meeting arranged by New Zealand Scenery Preservation Society Incorporated Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society Incorporated • Extracts from recent booklet “IS IT FOR SALE." STATEMENTS BY N.Z. SCENERY PRESER- THE MINISTER’S REPLY OF 29/8/69 VATION SOCIETY WITH LETTER TO THE AND FURTHER COMMENTS BY S.P. MINISTER OF ELECTRICITY: SOCIETY: 1: To justify its allegation of “misleading The Society claims that the Government has propaganda” by the Government the Society sold our heritage of Manapouri-Te Anau power quoted diminishing published estimates of the to foreign interests at bargain prices without gain in overseas funds to New Zealand as fol- any proper economic appraisal of the gains to lows: New Zealand. By comparing the usual cost of 1963: Mr Goosman S9OM power to the New Zealand Consumer, with the 1966: Mr Holyoake SBOM cost of power to Comalco, it can easily be 1966: Mr Shand SSOM shown that-the people of N.Z. are in effect July 1968: Rt. Hon. J. R. Marshall subsidising the smelter and losing at least S2OM SIOM rising to S2OM a year. lf New Zealand manufacturers could use power at the Comalco rate they could well earn much more in overseas funds. 2: "It has been stated that to replace this The Minister uses a figure of SIM in which extra Manapouri power from another hydro sta- case the corresponding cost per person would tion would ultimately cost electricity consumers be only 33 cents a year. However the Society $670,000 p.a. If this is shared by 3 million has reliable information that the estimated people this would be 22 cents per person a annual cost is in fact $670,000. Further,.if theyear . . .” lake was not raised, and hence SSM saved, and no control dam built, say S4M saved, a total saving of S9M would be achieved. The interest on this S9M at 7% represents $630,000 per year which compares with the $670,000 that the Society says will be the annual cost to the country by not raising the lake. Also the value of the land flooded has not been considered by Government. 3: ". . . it is now conceded that there is no The Minister infers his agreement with this, in need to raise Manapouri to provide power for stating in his letter that the power is required the Bluff smelter . . ."for the 4: "The late Hon. J. R. Hanan was quoted as No comment from the Minister. One would have saying on Bth May ‘I am unable to obtain a expected him to have given a reliable estimate, firm figure for clearing the waterfront shoreline Presumbably he has accepted the Society’s if the lake is raised. I got different answers from figure of S6M, though in a subsequent newsdifferent Government Departments'."paper report he quotes SSM. 5: "Nuclear power will be used in N.Z. within No comment from the Minister. 10 years and, according to the N.Z. Electricity Dept, its cost is already comparable with that of hydro-power and still greater production economies are bound to be achieved in the future.”6: The Society asserts that the raising of the The Minister says that disfigurement will be lake would result in the drowning of many covered up once the lake has been raised 27ft. golden beaches, probable slumping of hillsides He ignores the fact that the main purpose of and the exposure of a mutilated foreshore when- the raising is to provide storage which is useever the lake is drawn down. less unless the level is lowered from time to time. The White Paper gives the probably lowering of the lake as 27ft three times and 15ft twice in 35 years. This means once in seven years to, 15ft or more but ignores lesser drawdowns. Some of the wide valley floors have gradients as flat as 13ft to 1 mile so that a drawdown even as low as 3ft will reveal nearly i mile of stump-covered muddy waste at the mouths of valleys which is where tourists are accustomed to go. The Society repeats: It is physically impossible to raise the lake without causing permanent major disfigurement no matter how thoroughly i the bush is cleared.