1977AD! Extraordinary. I then notice something else odd. About this time the roles of the ministers of Mines. Electricity and Energy Resources disappeared. Maybe the Minister of Energy assumed care of them. Most strange. I would have thought the roles of the ministers of Transport, Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Science and for the Environment would have disappeared at the same time too then.*   

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* Other strange things have happened. Between1866 and 1906 Parliament repeatedly  could not decide whether NZ has a telegraph system or an electric telegraph system. Was telegraph by pigeon, semaphore, smoke or by tin cans on the wires in the non-electric years?
In 1972 the Minister of Science was also Minister of Electricity, of Mines and of Fuels and Power.  Confusing as this image is, it still suggests an awareness of the difference between energy forms and energy itself. Fuels and Power was then replaced by Energy Resources – an image of similar confusion and clarity.  Even more mysterious: The Minister of Energy disappeared again between 1996 and 1999 and reappeared in the Third Millennium. My journey is taking on elements of a thriller

 

Chapter Four-Energy Rules! -A Higher Being joins Cabinet.

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