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NATIONAL PARKS.

RIGHTS OF PRIVATE PEOPLE.

OBJECTION TO LEASES. (By Wire. —Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. When the Tongariro National Park Bill was introduceed ;n the House tonight, Mr. S. G. Smith (Taranaki) asked” for an assurance that the new board of control would not be allowed to lease portions of the park to private people for private use. He was aware that efforts were being made to do this in connection with the Egmont National Park, and he was going to resist the proposal when it came before the House. The parks would disappear altogether in fifty -or a hundred years it private people were allowed to secure rights- in them. The Minister replied that the Government realised that it must keep control, and the constitution of the- board would secure this end. The Bill was safe guarding the interests of the people, bul he wanted to enlist the sympathy and interest of the people throughout the North Island. The funds that would come into the hands of the board would be spent on the construction of roads and the general improvement of the park. He had been jealous when first he saw the Bill, because he had feared that control might pass into the hands of private individuals, but he was satisfied that the Bill protected public interests. If leases were given to people over small areas the money would be spent on the parks. Mr. O. Hawken (Egmont) said that the people who managed Tongariro Park and Egmont Park must have power to grant certain leases if they were to work up the tourist business. People who were going to cater for tourist traffic by providing accommodation and so forth must have some sort of tenure. Local people should be encouraged to develop the tourist traffic. Mr. R. Masters (Stratford) hoped that private people would not be allowed to acquire land exclusively in the national parks.

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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1922, Page 4

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319

NATIONAL PARKS. Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1922, Page 4

NATIONAL PARKS. Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1922, Page 4

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