National Development Bill
Sir, — Apart from New Zealand’s large coal deposits and some other hydrocarbons such as oil-shale and gas, it has small amounts of other minerals — gold, platinum, silver and antimony — and considerably larger amounts of titanium ores. My
fear is that the National Development Bill could be the hose through which all these, and other things, could be siphoned off in a few years to profit outsiders, instead of lasting for the hundreds of years that New Zealand’s own needs would allow. It would be a tragedy if New Zealand was to finish up as Ireland did — an impoverishedi leech-covered, skele-ton-like remnant, a caricature of what it might have been and the butt of derisive jokes and jibes. — Yours, etc..
G. K. MURROW, Rakaia. November 1. 1979.
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