Bid to save forest
Wellington reporter Conservationists will make a personal appeal to the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Muldoon, on Friday to save Maori-owned native forest in Southland from being milled. This comes after a decision by the Planning Tribunal to dismiss an appeal against the construction of a logging access road into the Waitutu Forest. The Planning Tribunal said that “by a matter of degree” the public interest lay in favour of permitting Feltex Industries, Ltd, to build the road and mill the forest resource. This exhausted the avenues of appeal open to
the Joint Campaign on Native Forests, said its director, Mr G. Salmon. All that was required now for the logging was consent from the Government. “Our plea to the Prime Minister will be that before the Government consents to the sacrifice of this forest, it
should look at the alternative of offering some State wood resources to the contracting parties,” he said. This could lead to a negotiated agreement which satisfied all the parties and preserved the “magnificent Waitutu Forest and the coastline”.
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