DETERMINED TO RESIST

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29235, 20 June 1960, Page 10

DETERMINED TO RESIST

Woman Owner Of Land

“The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, June 19. Mrs Noel Adams, who owns land on the Firth of Thames, said she would not allow test bores on her property and would fight any attempt to take her land. “Anyone who comes on my land to take test bores will be trespassing,” she said. “I am absolutely not interested in selling any of my property for an oil refinery site no matter how much they might offer. Nothing could compensate for the loss of my home. “And if there is any attempt to take my land by legislation I know the farmers will be behind me. I have been here more than 40 years.”

Mrs Adams said oil men showed her on a map those pieces of her land they wanted to buy. ‘‘lt’s all my best flat land.” she said. “It even has the woolshed on it. I could not possibly part with it—at any price.” She said she had heard nothing from the oil companies since she announced last month that her land was not for sale. Mrs Adams's late husband, Colonel N. P. Adams, was commandant of Featherston military camp in the First World War. He was a former chairman of the meat and wool section of Federated Farmers, then called the Farmers’ Union. Mrs Adams was at one time president of the Women’s Division. Her 3000-acre property fronts on the Firth of Thames, south of Orere Point

The Ministry of Works has installed a wave and tide recorder on a neighbouring property owned by Mr H. Royal.