Victory in New Zealand
By Paul Connett

Dear All,

This worldwide roller coaster continues unabated. I am happy to tell you that yesterday the Rotorua District Council in NZ voted against introducing fluoridation. Please send your congratulations to Martin Sharp and the some of the other fluoridation fighters listed below.

Even from the other side of the planet this makes me feel good - actually I visited Rotorua (I didn't give a talk or anything - just a visit) in January of 2003 -and it is a very beautiful place, so I am particularly pleased that wisdom has prevailed there.

Paul Connett
http://www.fluoridealert.org

by Martin Sharp

I attended the Decision meeting for the Rotorua District Council LTCCP 10 Year Plan today. There was a short discussion time with most Councillors making statements. I did not record the wording exactly but the final motion that 'RDC water supply not be Fluoridated' was amended to the effect that the Council also write to MoH Minister of Health) requesting that they investigate other means of tackling the problem of increasingly poor dental hygiene.

The motion was carried unanimously.

The only two vocally against did not bother voting against as they could see the numbers were against them. Interestingly the Councillor that is also on Lakes DHB that previously had been very pro supported the motion and in fact proposed the amendment. What was very evident was that ALL the Councillors saw through all the Red Herrings and made their decision based on some very simple truths.

1) Fluoride is not effective in today's environment of sugar rich, nutrition deficient
diet.

2) Fluoride is mass medication. Citizens have a right to say NO. They also felt that
the MoH needed to expand its thinking past the cheap, nasty and ineffective
fluoride solution to solve our poor dental hygiene problem.

The Deputy Mayor Trevor Maxwell left the meeting to thank me for all the efforts of FANNZ and Rotorua Fluoride Free Water. He made that statement that the presentation Dr Mike Godfrey made to Council during the hearings was crucial to our campaign.
Forwarded to us by Ailsa Boyden in Australia.

Other NZ FAN members and fluoridation fighters:
Martin Sharp martinsharp@lagrouw.co.nz;

Mike Godfrey godfrey@wave.co.nz; Melvin Bowen mel.bowen@xtra.co.nz;

Mark Atkin valhalla@paradise.net.nz; ImeldaWilsoHitchcock imeldah@xtra.co.nz;

FAN dakenbyrne@paradise.net.nz; Bill Wilson bill.wilson@xtra.co.nz

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