OLD STONE FORT
PRESERVATION OF RUINS NEGOTIATIONS WITH OWNERS Further consideration is to be given by the Government to the question of acquiring as a public domain the land at Paremata upon which are situated the ruins of the old Imperial Fort. In response to his representations on the subject, Mr. W. H. Field, M.P. for Otaki, has been advised by the Minister in Charge of Scenery Preservation (Hon. G. W. Forbes) that in July last the Scenery Preservation Board passed a resolution recommending that an area of approximately one acre, containing the site of the ruins, should be acquired by the Crown and reserved for historic purposes under the provisions of tjie Scenery Preservation Act, 1908. "At the .present time,” the Minister added, “there are no funds available for the acquisition of the land, arid the matter will be brought up for consideration, along with other proposals throughout the Dominion, when the scenery preservation estimates are being prepared. In the meantime the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Wellington, is being asked to obtain from the owners of the land' particulars as to the price they would be willing to sell the area of approximately one acre recommended by the Scenery Preservation Board.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 139, 8 March 1929, Page 10
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202OLD STONE FORT Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 139, 8 March 1929, Page 10
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