Southland is famous for its fiestiness and although its pretty much a Blue ribbon province they are not so keen on the ETS.
You only have to go back to the late 70's, to the day the streets of Invercargill ran red with blood as farmers , distressed by a lengthy strike by the meatworkers unions in the middle of a drought, staged a macabre protest. They were desperate to get the starving stock off the farms and into the works. So they took their protest to the people and slaughtered stock on the main street of Invercargill. It was not a pleasant sight. The sheep were dying on their feet so for most it was a mercy killing. It was an event that earned the moniker Bloody Friday.
It worked.
So they are capable of getting their dander up. And it seems that the ETS has got them in a lather....
Nick Smith and Eric Roy would have had a tough time of it....
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