Thar in catchment areas
Sir, —Your article entitled “Thar posing threat to Ashburton” invites comment. The heading—emotional, to make the reader apprehensive—is unfair and meaningless. The catchment of the Ashburton River is not, and never has been, thar country. Mr R. A. Rountree, who gave the warning, as chairman of the South Caterbury Catchment Board, knew this. His statement that thar were not an endangered species in New Zealand is equally incredible, as the policy of catchment boards and the Forest Service is extermination. Mr Rountree’s statement that “shingle is building up at the rate of several feet a year in the North Ashburton” equals the previous one in incredibility. As “several” means minimally two to three, are we to believe that over the last 15 years, for example, the level of this river has risen 30 to 45ft. This is well above the level of the surrounding olains. How credible is the remainder of Mr Rountree’s statement?—Yours, etc., A.M.C.
September 24, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33958, 26 September 1975, Page 8
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