High country access
Sir,—The correspondence about access to mountain lands is not quite fair to Mr A. Evans. He and the Federated Mountain Clubs, aim to uphold a very important democratic principle, namely the right of access by the public to publicly-owned land. Such effort is clearly necessary in some instances, for example the recent difficulty about access across Poronui Station in the Norths Island, which resulted in a court order to give the public its rights. Their other aim is to try to ensure that Class 8 land in the high country, unsuitable for pastoral use, and recently specifically excluded from such' use, should be freely available for recreational use by the public. Some of the land contains high, rugged mountains and glaciers and should never have been let for pastoral use. Runholders must control access to their own land but the public should be free to visit the unoccupied lands beyond.—Yours etc., C. J. BURROWS. Senior Lecturer in Botany. March 22,1974,
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33493, 26 March 1974, Page 10
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