Tourism
Sir, — Tourism is being peddled by all our political parties as the panacea for New Zealand’s economic woes. Labour has Mike Moore chomping lamb-burgers and kiwifruit rissoles, while National’s Rob Talbot enthuses over schemes for building gambling casinos next to our friendly supermarkets, shops opening eight days a week, and the planting of rhododendron bushes along our railway tracks so that both our remaining rail passengers can savour the beauty as they hurtle past at 30 km/h. Social Credit no doubt, plans to print the Tourodollar note for overseas visitors (redeemable at all T.A.B.s), while the Jones party visualises 40storey hotels with strongrooms exclusively for American tourists who, apparently, are forever losing their plastic credit cards and/or travellers’ cheques. The Values Party alone maintains a lofty silence, perhaps because it believes New Zealand should be enjoyed by New Zealanders first. What a quaint notion! — Yours, etc.,
R. L. PLUCK. May 23, 1984.
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