Dear John

I won my Golf. Only second Division but today I'm on a Natural High. Hope you had a good day too. I think you have at least one hundred silk ties - more than I have Palette and Jolly Cute!

I don't think your Cabinet should consider Mining Places such as the Kapnaga Block when people have gone to the trouble of planting Kauri. If you were to some how broker a deal with the Mining Companies that Our Country should get 50% instead of one dollar in the hundred you could afford to cut the area to be Mined by about 80-90% and still get the same dosh! How backward thinking are we that in the 21st Century we contemplate allowing such Daylight Robbery and not expect OUR FAIR SHARE? Broker a good deal, choose sites wisely and don't GIVE AWAY all the SILVER, or GOLD as it were PLEASE! I may be misinformed by Newspapers but I WAS ASTOUNDED!