Forest management
Sir, — One is sickened by the implications behind the suggested relogging of Pureora Forest. The Government has already compensated sawmilling companies, with public money, the large sum of S7M, while independent economic studies assess the actual loss at less than SIM. Even to suggest that Pureora be again logged, is sheer hypocrisy, especially after Mr Venn Young had shaken hands with members of the O.E.C.D. Whirinaki Forest is being logged by executive decision. Our country has less than 2 per cent of its lowland forest left. These priceless forests, the home of all bird life, are nature’s gift to all mankind and are our children’s rightful heritage. How much longer will we, as a free people, be governed by a government that tends .to rule' by executive decision? No doubt, thinking people will oust this Government in November, for a government that is concerned for people and a stabe environment. — Yours, etc., STAN HEMSLEY. April 24, 1981
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