Second smelter
Sir, — Mr Bill Birch has dismissed the Social Credit energy policy as simplistic when he could be better occupied worrying about his own. Japan has closed an aluminium smelter that no longer pays. A front-page item in the January 29 issue of “The Press,” stated that Australian smelter ' benefits are now doubted, that the plan to drown vineyards in the Hunter Valley is being re-examined and that Alutnax, with a 45 per cent shareholding, considers withdrawal. The aluminium boom on which the Minister pins his faith is not coming. We should stick to what we are good at, namely farming and related industries. Here work places can be created more quickly and cheaply; and spread-over the whole country, giving hope of renewal to small towns. As our money has lost half its value since 1975, we cannot afford the smelter gamble.—Yours, etc., A. M. COATES. February 9, 1981.
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