Assurance for lessees

Press, 2 September 1986, Page 6

Assurance for lessees

An assurance teat tee rights of high country les- : sees would be protected whatever the structure of high country administration has been given by tee Under-Secretary’ for tee Environment, Mr Philip Woollaston. He told tee Labour Party conference that the Cabinet was about to make a final decision on tee high country. What was needed was a package that safeguarded the rights of the lessees, to which tee Government was committed, without diminishing the rights of the public, Mr Woollaston

said. The conference passed two remits on the high country: ® That all pastoral leasehold Crown land be reviewed by a representative body to determine the best use of that land and hence its most appropriate owner or custodian; and ® That multiple-use approach to high country pastoral, tussock land management be within' tee new Conservation Department and not in tee commercially based Land Development and Management Corporation.