Department of Conservation
Sir,—lt is now painfully obvious that the Labour Party is no longer the workers’ party. Apart from going against its own department heads in setting up a Department of Conservation, the Government has ignored the advice of Federated Farmers, the Manufacturers’ Federation, of timber indus-
try groups, and the Employers’ Federation. Surely there are many jobs represented by these bodies, most involving many years of training and acquired skills. Now the Government is putting a lot of those jobs at risk by pandering to more vocal pressure groups. Nothing causes loss of support for a cause quicker than the possibility of livelihoods being disrupted and the same applies to support of a Government Conservation is a good cause, used wisely, but not at the expense of everything else. Mr Lange should look to the home front before entering the international battlefields.—Yours, etc., T. F. GAYNOR. September 17, 1985.
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