Letters 28 June: Have your say

Rial corridor

Re June 8 Letters to Editor - Okaihau rail corridor.

When the railway ceased to operate in 1987 and was subsequently ripped up, the land owners believed that they owned the land again.

Now 26 years later the council has stated that they still legally own the land and are putting a cycle way through. Any land taken under the Public Works Act no longer used for the purpose it was taken is to be legally given back to the owner except if it is taken for rail way purposes.

This is the legislation that allows the council to take the land back 26 years later even if it isn't for the purpose of a railway.

J Davis talks of the farmer who uses the land to protect the lives of his cattle and his dairy business when there is flooding. And why wouldn't he, there has been no existence of a railway track for the past 26 years, why would he not think it was his to use?

I ask J Davis this question, how is it fair that this farmer who has used this land to run his business and protect his cattle is suddenly told he can no longer use it?

Just because land is taken and "legally owned" by a governing body, in this case the council, does not make it right as the history of land issues within New Zealand would show.

I would like to further add at this point, that the farmer spoken of and all other land owners have been in negotiations with the council to find a fair solution for both parties, we haven't simply just said "no".

J Davis talks of the "selfish attitudes" of the property owners who are trying to negotiate a fair route through their land. How is this a selfish attitude when we are trying to find a fair solution for both parties? M Mills, Kawiti

Wake-up time

Colin Edwards contradicted himself by referring to the aluminium and barium found in samples of local rainwater, while in the same letter claiming the evidence to show chemtrails/geoengineering is occurring "is just not there," (Advocate, June 8).

It is time he woke up and smelt the chemtrails!

Aluminium, barium and strontium are being found in rainwater where chemtrails are sprayed, and they should not be in rainwater, period.

Edwards' claim that barium and aluminium should naturally fall in rain over populated areas is the kind of rot professional disinformation agents write.

Bad luck for him that a research team headed by Swiss filmmaker Matthias Hancke has taken samples of chemtrail plumes in the air, from aircraft, analysed them and proven that they are not water vapour.

Later this year they plan to release a documentary titled Overcast which will demonstrate exactly why aluminium, barium and strontium are being found in rainwater.

The history of interest in weather-related technologies, including chemtrails, is evident when a list of related patents is examined.

Pertinently, the Stratospheric Welsbach patent refers to the use of particles of the oxides of metals, including aluminium oxide in the stratosphere for the stated goal of reducing global warming. Clare Swinney, Whangarei