High-Handedness Denied

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31029, 7 April 1966, Page 3

High-Handedness Denied

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 6. The Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Seath) today denied a charge of “high-hand-ed empire building” made against him yesterday by the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. (The society made the charge after Mr Seath had ordered his department to take over control of wildlife in a 60 to 80 square miles area centred on Tokoroa). “It is totally incorrect to say that there is an ‘attempt to absorb acclimatisation societies’ and to talk of ‘highhanded empire building’ and

| ‘a bureaucratic take-over’,” Mr [Seath said. “The position is that for some time representations have been made by the Tokoroa Freshwater Angling Club for an adjustment of boundaries near Tokoroa. “Their proposals met with counter proposals from the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. Attempted Compromise “In recent correspondence with both parties I stated my intention of redrawing the boundaries in a way that I hoped would be a compromise. This attempt was apparently unsuccessful,” Mr Seath said. He had already looked into

He had already looked into the position again in the light of replies to his letters, he said. “I have worked out what seems to me a reasonable

solution and I am arranging for departmental officers to discuss the various proposals with the two parties on the ground in the district itself."