Bid to stop lease
PA Rotorua Legal advice will be sought in a bid to stop the lease of the Waimangu thermal valley, near Rotorua, being given to a private company.
| A public meeting in Ro(torua on Wednesday evening, attended by about 100 ; people, resolved to take jlegal advice to stop the ■ lease going through. It also ■voted to send an urgent telegram to the Minister of i Tourism (Mr Cooper) asking I him to revoke the memofrandum of agreement to lease the valley. Earlier this month Mr Cooper announced details of the lease agreement which would give Waimangu Thermal Valley Tours, Ltd, a 33year lease, renewable for 33 more years.
Speakers at the meeting criticised the supporters of the lease because none had turned up to put their view. Mr Cooper, the Minister of Lands (Mr V. S. Young), the member of Parliament for Tarawera (Mr I. McLean), and the manager of Waimangu Thermal Valley Tours, Mr C. Sewell, were invited to the meeting but declined the invitation. The reasons given were a belief that the meeting had been organised by the Labour Party but meeting organisers denied that it was politically organised.
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