CLOSING DOMAINS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1928, Page 2

CLOSING DOMAINS

PR ESS URE OF "Sl’OiiT

WELLINGTON, Sept. 28. Under the previsions o’i tire Public deserves, Domains and National ParksBill, it will he possible to charge admission to domains on twenty clays ,©r yoiir. and on an additional ten Jays per year, if the consent oi 'the Governor-General-in-C ouncil is obta i lied. Air J. S. Dickson objected to tins mivishjn when the Bill was in the committee stage to-night. He thought that thirty (lays were too many, ft meant that a domain could -he closed ;o the public on more than every other Saturday. Twenty days would !>:.* finite suffieieni. I’ndor what was proposed if might mean that- a domain could he closed against free admission throughout the- whole of a season. Mi .). A. >a id ila-i-. w-.'o. a g'»-l. i.l -la I in uhal the nj • • I't i"J n loi Parued said. L might. p:.-i-ii| I-* righ! enough if ii coiild o i-nd.gU-aj thai the ihiriy days should not all be Saturdays. '-"’lie Alinister of Lands (the* lion A. I). AT Lend) said it was often diffieuk in small centres to obtain proprietor ’ nlaviiig grounds anil there was no o| - lion Iml: to olay on public domains. It if. was considered tlml a limit should be nut on t--iL«<*'--. lie would se-o "hat roulil l,e done, Should the elauso I*-’ passed on its present form, he "ouh! see if soineiinig could he done to cm out cities from iis provisions, so '.ns 1.0 make a fewer number of closed days. He pointed out that the local controlling aulliorivies in many case--, had a.h'.ohde control over domains.