Milling relics and forestry
Sir, —It is all very well for the Forest Service to admonish holiday-makers for removing historic relics from the West Coast bush. The Forest Service itself is guilty of damaging historic sites. A
historic reserve near Goldsborough features a logging road right through the middle of some spectacular gold workings. Part of the major Hochstetter water race on Callaghans Ridge was recently bulldozed and the Kawhaka water race is similarly threatened by forestry operations. These sites are supposed to be protected by the 1976 Historic Places Act which the Forest Service carelessly ignores. Official vandalism with the bulldozer can be even more destructive than public pilfering of historic relics.—Yours, etc.,
A. J. CRAIG. January 1, 1978.
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