Second smelter
Sir, — I too question the pros, cons and dubious benefits from such as the fasttrack smelter scheme. Questions such as health-effects pertaining to all living things adjacent, require more explanation and a bond of guarantee. Are surreptitious financial take-overs replacing wars now? Are the water power-ways of this last bastion of . freedom being converted into the gold and volts of unrelated industry? Competent overseas industrialist aluminium industry expansion reeks of a false race for survival. Speed can be a symbol of failure; not peace nor even success. Repent on welfare. Think well first, say the white elephants of history. All that glitters is not gold. Neither it nor aluminium helps man wrestle with his primary instinct — survival, as does the’ indigenous prolific renewable herbaceous God-given things — food for man. Fears rise that swelter-smelter financiers are out to industrially yoke a somnolent populace. — Yours, etc.,
F. N. (NORM) WARDELL. November 24, 1980.
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