Between the recent proposal to centre South Island
neurosurgery services in Christchurch and now the report that
the New Zealand Shippers' Council favors Lyttleton over Port
Chalmers, one gets the impression that for many in positions
of influence anything below the Waitaki River does not really
exist. But while their maps may be based upon those of old
seafarers, carrying the label: "here be dragons", if they
listen closely they will note that it is not the dragon's
roar they hear. Rather it is the combined voices of 300,000
angry New Zealanders who are tired of being treated as
irrelevant.
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