Body found

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33063, 2 November 1972, Page 14

Body found

The body of a 42-year-old Cheviot man was found about 2 a.m. yesterday half a mile north of the Port Robinson Slipway, near Gore Bay. He was

James Henry McClintock, married, a commercial fisherman, of Buckley Street, Cheviot.

Mr McClintock's 16ft dinghy was found on the rocks at Gore Bay on Tuesday evening. The outboard motor was still on the boat but the cabin was found about 50 yards away.

tourists might be drawn to the Coast by the beech forests. I took the suggestion seriously, for tourists may be New Zealanders. I visited Westland for the first time, recently, and fell in love with it. The uninterrupted avenues of native forest were so beautiful that they will draw me back to the Coast again and again. Perhaps economic planners do not appreciate them because one does not “visit” them; instead, one drives through them. If it is absolutely necessary to plant dull pine forest, surely it could be done in a way which would leave the almost primeval atmosphere untouched. Native bush could be left along the main roads, to hide the exotic trees from the passer-by. Money is only one of the things West Coasters need for the quality of life. To destroy their beautiful environment would be a tragedy.—Yours, etc., J. J. NEALE. November 1, 1972. Sir, —I hope some political party comes up with a “more power to the people” programme, especially relating to internal marketing of fresh foods. Last week on a fishing trip at Nelson we caught four cases of marketable fish. As we were not licensed the surplus could not go to legal markets. Fish-and-chip shops are usually open for black marketing, especially if you have snapper. But we found their freezers so full of long-frozen shark, bought at bargain prices, that they were not interested. Why not a bundle of fish on a piece of flax at the door, as in prewar days? And let the buyer be the judge as to price and quality. When you are denied fish fresh out of the sea, trout farming would only be an extension of the present system that profits those who neither catch, clean, nor eat the fish. —Yours, etc., J.F.A. November 1, 1972. Sir, —Last evening in a city theatre I watched with pleasure one of those gorgeous film productions such as cigarette advertisers use. A lovely beach near Wellington with Kapiti Island across sparkling water, and a typical New Zealand family playing idyllically on the sand and in the waves. But no, instead of a new type of filter, the ending informed us it was time for a change—to Labour. This scene, obviously taken fairly recently, was one of peace and happiness, enjoyment, life, and vitality; in fact, New Zealand today, under a National Government. For goodness sake, why change?—Yours, etc., SUNBATHER. November 1, 1972.