Clyde dam

Press, 11 August 1982, Page 12

Clyde dam

Sir,—lf saving 600 Clyde dam workers and their families from suffering the misery and financial hardships of. being thrown on the unemployment scrapheap is to be accepted as a "sorry performance” one must wonder at the mentality of some people. It is certainly not Social Credit which gave a “sorry performance” but this National Government which created the impasse by ignoring the law and building the dam without a permit, and the Labour Party which so callously wiped the dam workers. Messrs Rowling, Anderton and Palmer now realise by its'weak-gutted action that Labour stands to lose massive electoral support, hence its bitter attacks on Social Credit. Faced with the same situation, Norman Kirk would have made the same humane decision as that of Bruce Beetham.—Yours, etc., R. S. WILSON. Hokitika, August 8, 1982.

Sir,—ln reply to M. P. Gough (August 6) Social Credit did not capitulate to Government pressure but through half-truths by certain Government Ministers which have now been exposed. I believe Mr Beetham may have had second thoughts about signing any agreement with Mr Muldoon on the Clyde dam issue especially since the alleged “water rights” agreement the Government claimed it held, has now been- declared “null and void” by the tribunal. M. P. Gough’s basic principles appear a little obscure as disclosed by the

outburst in “The Press."— Yours, etc., C. FLINT. August 6, 1982.