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WITH ALL THY VOLTS | LOVE THEE STILL ORTY years on-maybe thirty or twentyKilowatts pour from the nuclear pilesBores geothermal in copious plenty-Hydro-electric Department all smilesThanks to the efforts of scientist chaps Blessed with the brains of da Vincis and Platos, Submarine cables to Sydney perhapsSending them power in exchange for potatoes. Householders basking in lots of hot waterCabinet Ministers getting in nonePrice of it down to a half or a quarterWho can dispute it? Well, I do, for one. Forty years on, near 2000 A.D., I shall be feeble, decrepit and wizened, Listening still to the powers that be Making excuse for the power that isn’t. -RGP.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 13
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109Parking Metres New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 13
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