NATIONAL PARK DEVELOPMENT
“Happy Balance” Recommended
A "happy balance" between development and preservation of national reserves was recommended by the supervisor of national parks (Mr R. W. Cleland), who spoke in Christchurch on Thursday evening to a meeting of the Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand.
Mr Cleland said that New Zealand's first national park was formed after the Maori chief Te Heu Heu Tukino gave the nation the tops of Mount Ngaruhoe, Mount Tongariro, and Mount Ruapehu in 1887. The park was gazetted in 1894 15 years after the world’s first national park. With colour slides Mr Cleland showed how the
national parks were used today.
“There are people and organisations who think of our reserves in terms of pounds, shillings, and pence,” Mr Cleland said. “This is one of our big problems. “We need places where there are only foot tracks, no roads; and huts for the camper and hunter.” Development of the waterways was possible if those doing the developing were prepared to safeguard the secrecy. Planning should not be held up by emphasising one aspect more than another, Mr Cleland said.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29620, 16 September 1961, Page 15
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