My kingdom for a telephone call
The government has gone way too far in cutting the Department of Conservation budget, and I have the evidence: Last week I called the Whakapapa office of Tongariro Nation al Park aiming to speak to the park's public relations officer, who was not available at the time. I asked if he could call me back when available and heard from the receptionist: "Ohakune collect?". While the cost of a collect call from, Whakapapa to Ohakune is nothing to get too upset about, surely a PRO's job is to foster good public relations and needs to be able to make the odd toll call, especially to the press, to do his job properly. A niggardly little policy like calling collect from one side of a park to the other seems to me a negative public relations activity. When Conservation staff have to concentrate an conserving piddling little amounts like the :ost of a short toll call what chance have they got of getting on with the real job - conserving ' what's left of our natural surroundings?
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 293, 4 July 1989, Page 7
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