Timber workers block buses
PA Taupo A dozen mounted timber workers from the forestry township of Minginui, supported by 150 placardcarrying residents, stopped four bus-loads of forest conservationists from entering the settlement on Saturday. The buses were stopped on the public road from Murapara, said Mr M. Collins, leader of a field trip from the Environment and Conservation Organisation’s conference at Taupo.
He said that there was a picnic atmosphere as the two groups confronted each other — the timber men wanting to keep their
jobs and hunting, and the conservationists wanting to add 11,500 hectares of native forest in the area to Urewera National Park.
After listening to each other’s viewpoints, the 150 E.C.O. conference delegates turned their buses back to Taupo and the timber men returned to their enclave. If the native forest were added to the National Park, it would be the end of logging, their jobs, and their hunting, the Minginui men told the conservationists. The conservationists retorted that exotic trees would be ready for felling in 1980 to keep the timbermen in work.
New Zealand’s league tour of Australia started with a loss on Saturday but brightened up yesterday as the Kiwis beat Riverina. —Back page
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