Judas the Jew sold our Saviour for 30 pieces of silver. Here the Prime Minister is once again reneging on his pre-election promises of keeping the public informed. We now understand negotiations are already in hand to investigate the possibility of mining on the picturesque Dennison Plateau.
Will he follow the example of Judas?
Norman Jones, Papamoa.
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INFO UPDATE SIR
Posted on 03-12-2011 17:11 | By WOMBLE
They are all politicians so don't raise your expectations to be unrealistic, be they: red, blue, black, yellow or anything in between. The result is the same, they are all programmed that upon hearing an election result that the brain hits the "auto wipe everything button".
Denniston Plateau
Posted on 11-12-2011 07:34 | By Bill Hazeldine
One of the reasons given NOT to mine the Denniston Plateau is that it is home to a giant native snail. It may come as a surprise to some that the said snail is not only up on the plateau but is found in the bush right down to the coast in the Makihinui area and that mining is not as much a threat to their survival as introduced thrushes. As a young man I worked in the timber industry north of the Mokihinui river. I observed literally thousands of empty baby snail shells on the bush tracks.That was in the late 1940s.I would suggest that the forest and bird people are a bit late in coming to the rescue, if indeed there is any realistic hope for the snails survival log term without removing thrushes from the area. Bill Hazeldine. Late of Maungatapu, Now of Hawera.
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