Arapawa goats
Sir, — Last week, Mr Young answered a question in Parliament about the Arapawa goats. His figure was 690 goats killed and he valued them at $l7OO. This is less than $3 a goat. By today’s prices, feral does are fetching $35 upwards. If we conclude that half the goats killed were females and multiply 345 by $35, it comes to $12,075, a far cry from $l7OO. Recently, a North Island breeder bought a registered Arapawa Old English buck for several hundred dollars. Anyone for that kind of arithmetic? Either the Minister was misinformed, or he cannot multiply. If we cannot accept the Arapawas on an aesthetic and historical basis, how about the economics of the situation. Taxpayers’ money was used to destroy a valuable resource. —Yours, etc.,
MRS BETTY ROWE, Aotea. June 11, 1979.
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