Rakaia River
Sir,—The Concise Oxford dictionary defines conservation as: “preservation especially of a natural environment.” When the acclimatisation societies made their recommendations for a conservation order on the Rakaia River, they laid down what they considered to be the absolute minimum conditions for conservation of the Rakaia’s outstanding natural features. A National Water and Soil Conservation Authority committee of six, four of them fanners, has drafted a conservation order which considerably reduces the minimum recommendations of the societies. In talking about something as critical as the “preservation of a natural environment,” it would be wiser to retain more than the required minimum, and not less. — Yours, etc., T. C. BARCLAY. April 13, 1984.
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Press, 14 April 1984, Page 18
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