The storm
Sir, — . When does the Government call an emergency? When dairy farmers can’t milk their cows because there is no electricity? When egg and cockerel producers have their sheds blown to pieces? When sheep farmers have no electricity, uncrutched sheep, trees across fences and possibly no stock water — all in the middle of lambing? When farm children live in houses with no hot water, no running water, unflushed toilets and little heating? We know when they do — when the electric grid lines from the South Island to the North is cut. I would not write this letter if I did not think that the health of my children had been placed in jeopardy by nonaction of all bodies involved. — Yours, etc.,
H. G. BRITTAN. Dunsandel. August 8, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33918, 11 August 1975, Page 14
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