Port of Oamaru
Sir, — Your .feature regarding the New Zealand Ports Authority’s decision not to reopen the port of Oamaru (“The Press,” July 9), was an eye-opener. A statutory authority has carefully reviewed the
available evidence and decided that reopening the port is not an economic proposition in the national interest. Cr Helen Stead has courageously pointed out that $5O million in taxpayers’ subsidies are required for the cement exporting project, while markets are uncertain and production at other New Zealand cement works is running at only 60 per cent of capacity. Yet everyone in Oamaru seems quite frank in their cynical expectation that the Government will again overturn the decision of a statutory authority, and pour $5O million into propping up another ill-conceived Think Big project, just for the sake of rescuing Mr Jonathan Elworthy from electoral oblivion. What protection do taxpayers have from this sort of politics? — Yours, etc., PETER S. GRANT. Nelson July 11, 1983.
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