Crown lands
Sir, —Kevin Smith (August 27) wonders what this Government stands for. It sees the answer to years of ministerial ineptitude and bureaucratic bumbledom in Rogernomics: an arid, materialist philosophy of strait-jacket economics and narrow commercialism, having little consideration for the social and environmental consequences. A single-purpose criterion of monetary profitability has supplanted the former multipie-objective fabric for management of non-reserve Crown lands. Yet worship of discounting and internal rates of return are a sure recipe for exploitation and the demise of
long time-scale activities like forestry. Even Mr Butcher (August 20) now admits the Government will have to continue to support “uneconomic” East Coast forestry when this resource is handed over to the corporation for management. The whole com cept of surrendering our public lands to bodies having independent policy-making boards is repugnant, the more so as corporatisation is but the first step on the slippery slope to privatisation.—Yours, etc.,
ERIC BENNETT. Wellington, August 28, 1986.
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