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Dear Governor Grey,

I am writing to you about the negative points about people immigrating to New Zealand.

The first thing I am going to point out is that too many native forests are getting cut down. Because of the people immigrating to New Zealand we have to make more houses for them and we have run out of space so therefore we have to cut down thousands of native trees and plants. Soon we are not going to have any land left because it will be covered in houses.

My second point is all the diseases. Maori are getting so many different diseases because the people immigrating here are sick. If we don't stop these sick people coming in to our country then there will be no Maori left just the people that immigrated.

My third and final point is the massive population increase. We have to be strict on who we let in to our country because if we don't there will be no jobs left for the true New Zealanders. Our country will get more polluted the more people there are therefore New Zealand will not be a healthy and good country to be in.

Therefore, Governor Grey, I feel that this is all anfair on the New Zealanders that were already here because our country is getting polluted and all of our native trees are getting cut down so all the things we have worked hard for are ruined.

Yours sincerely, Lily McLean

Description of my self My full name is Elizabeth Mary Templeton McLean :). since I started school my mum changed my name to Lily so I guess that's my name now. The first school I went to was Arthur burns then S ilverstream, then Taieri college now St H ildas.

I have two brothers and two sisters my oldest brother is 24 this year and his name is Peter. My second oldest brother is 23 this year and his name is Simon. My oldest sister is 21 this year and her name is Kate. My second oldest sister is 18 this year and her name is Sarah. Peter works for child youth and family in Dunedin but just got a job in Wanganui so is moving there in April. Simon is working in gore now he just got that job and he sells fertilizer for a company called Balance. Kate works at Newl Cast in Dunedin as the office person and she just brought a house with her boyfriend. Sarah is in her last year at Columba college. I applied for Columba and got in but decided to come here instead.

The things I like to do in my spare time is hang out with mates, play cricket, with family, go for runs and watch tv. My favorite food is wraps and all types of lollies. My favorite place in the world is the Gold Coast in Australia even thow i've only been there once in my life which was last year. My favorite place in New Zealand would be Christchurch because there are lots of malls and shops to go shopping.

I have a stretcher in my ear that is 3 mm which is quite small. I used to do karate and I was yellow belt but the guy stopped teaching it so I stopped but I might do it again because it was good exercise and it was quite fun.

A good memory was when I was the flower girl for my aunty and uncles wedding in Middlemarch, I was six at the time and I had to go dance with this boy because every one made me which was quite funny and everyone was watching which was embarrassing. It was held in a wool shed but it was as beautiful as a princess.

I was born at Dunedin hospital on the 29th of October 1996, I was two weeks early so my birthday should have been in November sometime.

The Gold Coast

The hot sand lays along the beach, waiting for the cooling water to sway with the breeze. The people swim in the aqua blue water, with the sun beaming on there backs.

The crowd of people waiting in line, the smell of new clothes in the building, the people franticly finding sales, wear their sales to the fun filled theme parks.

The adrenaline rush, twirling and whirling, screaming and screeching, ride to ride.

The tweet of birds, trees swaying side to side, children playing and laughing, flowers glowing in their shadows.

By Lily