Tongariro Forest Park decision called for
"There have been numerous previous assertions of approval in principle regarding the Forest Park and the people of the Tongariro region have long since lost
At a recent meeting of the Tongariro Forest Park Committee the retiring Chairman, Mr Alan Bradbury, issued a challenge to the Minister of Forests, the Hon. Koro Wetere, and the Minister of Conservation, the Hon. Russell Marshall, to furnish a definitive public statement on the status of Tongariro Forest.
patience with the Ministers' handling of this issue," he said. The Tongariro Forest Park Committee was established on 17 April 1984
and within a year the Minister of Forests had granted approval "in principle" for Forest Park status. Tongariro Forest Park is an area of native forest bounded by State Highway 4 on its western border and State Highway 47 on its south eastern border and by the upper reaches of the Wanganui River to the north east. cont'd on p. 8
Tongariro Forest Park cont'd from p. 1
Mr Bradbury said the Forest park could have been gazetted at any time since then and pointed out that the Minister of Forests had no difficulty in gazetting the Whanganui National Park and Paparoa National Park during that time. "With the 1987 election imminent, surely this is the appropriate time to establish if this approval in principle has been abandoned by the Ministers concemed." Mr Bradbury said he con-
sidered that the continuous work of this voluntary community committee, the research, the three years of meetings and the voluminous amount of paper involved must demand more from our Government Ministers than the cavalier manner often portrayed. "I am sorry to be relinquishing the Chairmanship but it is necessitated by a change of residence and I would like to commend the Committee for their loyalty, tenacity, patience and hard work," he said.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 5, 28 July 1987, Page 1
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