Paparua District Scheme
Sir, — Nowhere in Tuesday’s lamentable editorial does intellectual arrogance show more clearly than in the final sentence: “But 't should not be deterred from
the sensible course it has finally decided on in the interests of the whole community.” I had hoped that bureaucratic "final solutions” ceased in 1945. You obviously don’t recognise that many people have an affinity with the land which is as passionate as love and as spiritual as religion. To you, land may be just a capital asset; to me a cathedral is just a building. But I respect the feelings of those to whom each is much more. Unless we limit the powers of government, the next pronouncement may well be that churches are to be razed for occupying valuable commercial sites (while contributing nothing to G.N.P.), and that Christian worship is to be banned for keeping people from doing productive work on Sundays. — Yours, etc., ROBIN C. DUFF. April 17, 1976.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34131, 19 April 1976, Page 12
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