RANGITOTO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 15

RANGITOTO

ojj j. ]\j r TC. P, Turner's able pronouncement in condemnation of the conditions at Rangitoto surely regime, seconder, but it as surely prices public opinion. For after all, this is a public domain; and as a uniqu botanical area, must be guarded as such. Once destroyed tl.< natural features cannot be restored. Natural beauty, as the d.rect result of the present methods of eontiol, is eing gradually -marred and in places • easinglv obliterated as the resldt ,'} the continued privileges being extended to shack owners. 1 hose pri\ lieges t nmv bcil) j, claimed as moral rights o the grantees, and if the position is ",»■ promptly tor .tod tmo moral rights may as surely be constriior] ns'legal rigl.te. 51.1110r, II tl,™ f hnvniiil the control even ol the SJrr hority itself. Such things vivo happened elsewhere. 'I here should be a terndnation of the privileges already granted, added to a stricter supervision of the is allv over its whole aria. • nf'Tunis is to be commended, and will, I am s.ir£ receive full pubhe supimrt, < i nf Auckland, but ot New Zca charms are not a local asset meich, j a national possession to be » * N -"o£

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