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Bill to promote 'open space'

Wellington reporter New legislation has been' introduced into Parliament! to “encourage and promote the provision of open space! for the benefit and enjoy-! ment of the people of New Zealand’’ — The Queen Elizabeth II National Trust Bill. The Lands and Agriculture Select Committee will probably hear submissions on the bill in mid-September. The main function of the National Trust will be the “provision, protection, preservation and enhancement of open space,” but this will not extend to the functions of the Historic Places Trust.

Ten other functions have been set out as well, and the trust will be given all the powers reasonably necessary or expedient to enable it to carry out its functions. These include the power to acquire

or dispose of any land or i other form of property, by ;iany legal means. The concept of "open I space” within the bill is a J broad one: it means any land or body of water that i assists in preserving a landscape of aesthetic, cultural, recreational, scenic, scien- : tific or social interest or value or both. The trust’s i role will be to investigate and make recommendations, : rather than to regulate. i The trust has the capacity to become the umbrella or- : ganisation so badly needed I to co-ordinate outdoor recre- > ation and sport, and the provision of facilities for them.

Because outdoor recreation and sports enthusiasts have lacked a co-ordinating body, they have tended to go their own ways, and have increasingly found themselves in conflict.

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Press, 30 August 1977, Page 22

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Bill to promote 'open space' Press, 30 August 1977, Page 22

Bill to promote 'open space' Press, 30 August 1977, Page 22