Highlights everything that is wrong with this company IMO. Very few dividends in that lengthy period, no capital growth and all the while geologists, management and directors paid handsomely well to generate substantial real inflation adjusted losses for shareholders. (65 cents or thereabouts in 2015 money is obviously only worth a small fraction of what 73 cents was 34 years ago in inflation adjusted terms). In fact I couldn't resist and went onto the Reserve Bank's inflation calculator
http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary_pol...on_calculator/ and found 73 cents in Q1 1981 is now worth $3.08 in today's money just to be even in terms of getting your money back let alone actually getting some return on that money for 34 years !!
What a truly shocking destroyer of shareholder value this company has been. Different this time now that Tony Radford has well and truly gone right ? Yeah right, hand me another Tui.