Chathams
Sir,—l support the gloomy prediction of the Chatham Islands County Chairman, Bunty Preece, on the Chatham Islands’ future after the fruitless public meeting held here recently. After a clear warning that this is the last review of the islands and that the meeting was the chance to say something constructive about it, there followed a wasted evening of debate on grievances lnevitably, someone brought up independence (I cringed with embarrassment). Absent were many of the community’s economic mainstay, the most productive fishermen, who were either fishing or getting ready for the next hard day’s work. If the Minister of Internal Affairs now makes decisions on what he decides is best for us, I would not blame him. — Yours, etc. R. L. CLOUGH. December 10, 1989.
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