Nassella tussock
Sir, —Concern about nassella tussock or rabbits can be guaranteed to fall on deaf ears. Politically it is preferable to pay out SI6M unemployment benefit in Kaikohe alone as rural Northland degenerates to its pre-war state. Who cares? My late father (who called the first nassella meeting) and people like the late Jack Earl and Jack (Rabbit) Sloss must “gaze down” on the devastation of 30 years hard work to realise that all the time they gave was wasted, such is the political recognition of their efforts. Nassella was almost beaten here until National’s Minister of Lands and Forests (Mr Gerard) politically planted a festering timebomb seedbed on Tirimoana under forest cover, against which I led a Young Farmers’ Club protest. The Muldoon-Bolger Cabinet then compounded the mistake by cutting funds for nassella and rabbit control. Labour’s selling of forestry will no doubt negate the Crown’s responsibility for the spread of nassella from this area. Who cares? — Yours, etc., JOHN McCASKEY. July 20, 1988.
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