Administration of parks
Sir. — I heartily support the views of Messrs Henson and Claridge concerning the proposals of the Minister of Lands for changes to national park administration. The move clearly comes from the Lands and Survey Department head office, for no ranger or local employee of the department I have talked to supports it. It is an attempt by a Wellingtonbased bureaucracy to take the control of national parks away from the public. But to remove administrative power and financial control from park boards is to end a well-proven system of administration in which the powers of the park boards and the department balance one another. This change can surely lead to nothing but harm. I am also disgusted that the Minister of Lands should regard “only 32 submissions” as unimportant, when many represented the views of substantial associations. Presumably his mind was already made up. So much for public discussion. — Yours, etc., D. G. ELMS, Chairman, Arthur’s Pass Association. April 7, 1980.
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