Molesworth
Sir, —For 50 years Molesworth Station has been an image of the high country’s vast tawny beauty and a reminder of how land can be ravaged when the profit motive is unrestrained. Now, after long taxpayer-funded restoration, the new Lands Corporation wants to take Molesworth over. This corporation will have freehold title to its lands. Its principal objective, by law, will be to be a successful business. Subject to virtually no political control, it could once more destroy important natural areas to increase production. It could charge entry fees or even sell its lands. Molesworth’s future will soon be decided in secret by Wellington mandarins. Many of our forbears came here to escape societies where the rich and powerful controlled vast estates. I object to giving away my birthright to satisfy some doctrinaire economic theory and the ambitions of bureaucrats who formerly managed Molesworth and now want to take it with them to the Lands Corporation. — Yours, etc., D. J. ROUND. October 17, 1986.
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Press, 22 October 1986, Page 20
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