WALTER PEAK PROPOSALS
Board Defends Action (N.Z. Pres* Association) WELLINGTON, November 10. The complaint of Mr G. H. Wiles at the week-end that the Land Settlement Board had delayed his plans to go ahead with a multi-million dollar holiday and ski resort on Walter Peak Station, near Queenstown, was answered today by the board's deputy chairman and Director-Gen-eral of Lands (Mr R. J. McLachlan). “Mr Wiles has apparently had these plans in train for some months, but be left his application to the board until the eleventh hour. “The board at Its monthly meeting on November 5 was asked to consider an application which had been received only five days previously. “The board felt that the implications of consent to the proposal put to it needed much greater consideration and therefore decided to defer a decision until the matter could be fully investigated. “The board has no desire to delay any legitimate plans Mr Wiles may have. On the other hand, it has a duty to the New Zealand public to ' see that the public interest : is being preserved,” Mr MacLachlan said.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32143, 12 November 1969, Page 10
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