Water rights
Sir,—We are informed that Electricorp will be spending as many millions of dollars as is necessary to overturn a recent legal decision concerning the use of the waters of the Wanganui River. We do not believe that justice should be the prerogative of the player who can raise the highest stakes, and we find it objectionable that Electricorp has not asked us, as two of its public owners, for authority to spend our money in this way. We have also recently seen, at first hand, how excessive extraction from the headwaters is harming this beautiful and historic river. We are therefore asking one of the other litigants, the Wanganui River Maori Trust, to accept a token contribution of $lOO towards any legal costs it may incur in defending the earlier decision—Yours, etc., PETER AND MARGARET WARDLE. September 4, 1989.
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