Mining
Sir,—L. W. Allott’s concern over locked up resources (August 25) is understandable when more than 85 per cent of the West Coast land area is in parks and reserves and Department of Conservation land on which no revenue is paid to local authorities by way of rates, etc. If the pr olific beech forests were managed on a sustained yield basis, as worked out by the Forest Service, it would create work revenue and also ’ take more carbon-dioxide from the air as a regenerating forest uses more carbon than a mature one. D. J. Round (August 26) could show
his deep anti-mining concern by example; e.g., forgo the use of such articles as a car, television set, radio, washing machine, and all household amenities. He could then don a grass skirt, take a stone axe and enter the forest, where I am sure he would get all the solitude and enlightenment he required.—Yours, etc.,
AFTON BLACKADDER. September 4, 1989.
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