Illegal park camp?
• May I comment on your article of 14 September about DoC camp charges. Mr Bogie claims that DoC is not covered by the Camping Ground Regulations 1985. I disagree and quote from the regulations: Pt 2 Interpretation: "Remote camp site" means a camping-ground in a national park, state forest, state forest park, or public reserve, or on Crown land." Miscellaneous Provisions Pt 14(3): "A local authority may grant the operator of a remote camp site a certificate of exemption
from such requirements of these regulations as it specifies in that certificate". Ruapehu District Council staff assure me that no such exemption has been issued. So it seems that national parks ara specifically covered by the regulations and that Tongariro National Park is collecting camping fees in breach of the law. Mr Bogie claims that the department "would be retaining the present level of services," however development is already taking place (foundations are in place for the erection of signs and other advertising is being considered). I appreciate that DoC staff are under budgetary pressure and that they do a remarkably effxcient job under difficult conditions. I also believe that they
will be pushing camping ground charges in an attempt to raise funds for the department. Mr Bogie, in conversation with me by phone, could not assure me that further development would not be considered in the future. So we have a fight between a tax-payer trying to feed his family and a tax-funded department trying to satisfy its money-minded monsters. I believe that it is up to the Ruapehu District Council to place itself as the meat in the middle. Enforcement of the camping ground regulations is a local body responsibility. Again I quote: "No local authority shall register or renew the registration of any premises as a campingground that do not comply with the requirements of these regulations." -
Camping Ground Regulations 1985, Pt 3 "Registration".
Noel
Shepherd
Ohakune Motor-camp
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 504, 21 September 1993, Page 4
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323Illegal park camp? Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 11, Issue 504, 21 September 1993, Page 4
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