South Island Movement
Sir, — May I point out to ■your correspondent, Betty E. Goulden, (April 15) that “our small Country” is already split, by Nature, into two parts? Politically, it •is also split'into a larger representation for the-.' north, and a smaller for the south.
reversing the land area pro.,sportions. Those, who try run- . ning a business in the South Island, find a singular discrepancy in the availability oi stocks. Recently, the Minister of Energy stated in front :of TV cameras, that it would -never, do to have an imbalance in power-/charges between the two islands, There was already a discrepancy there; it is cheaper in the north. The South Island Movement has valid reasons for aiming at self-determina- • tion for the South Island and its resources. We are in imminent danger of-becom-ing., the poor relation, .of the north, along with the .loss of our valuable natural resources. — Yours, etc., MRS A. J. FLANAGAN, April 15, 1980.
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