Forest reserves
Sir, — How Venn Young can go to an international environmental conference and utter environmental cliches, while presiding over the continuous destruction of this country’s forests is beyond me. The Minister may believe that the Government is simply the mouthpiece of an entrenched bureaucratic power machine instead of being what it should be. an apparatus which assimilates data provided without prejudice by the bureaucracy and which then arrives at a logical decision after much discussion, bearing in mind that the Government exists for the people and that people’s views carry weight, indeed more weight than those of the bureaucracy. Government ministers were given half an hour to read and assimilate a large and technical document. New Zealand wound up with a pittance in reserve forests and workable alternatives to sawmillers’ employment problems were ignored. — Yours, etc., MARK C. CADOGAN, The Hermitage. May 18, 1979.
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