National Park administration
Sir, — The Silver Jubilee (25 years) National Parks Conference 1978 reaffirmed that the National Parks Authority and park boards with executive powers be retained and strengthened; reforms thought desirable were matters of detail only. What has so dramatically changed that we should now abandon a system which is admired and envied overseas for its independence and involvement of local expertise and knowledge? It is the sudden realisation by development-mad politicians that the parks and reserves, once happily consigned to regional management as being of no economic significance, have a development potential after all. It thus comes unnecessary to ensure political control from the centre. The , “working document” for the O.E.C.D. review of environmental policy and management' in -New Zealand puts it crudely: “the security of legislative status is not high in most cases.” — Yours, etc. ERIC BENNETT, Wellington. • July 13, 1980.
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