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National Trust For open space in New Zealand No. 38 March 1997 Nga Kairauhi Papa
1000th National Trust IN THIS ISSUE • t • Covenant Registered! I000TH OPEN SPACE COVENANT REGISTERED More than 400 people Otorohanga. Over 13 kilometres Page I gathered on the property of of fencing has been required to AROHA ISLAND ECOLOGICAL Alister, Ann and Antony Stubbs protect the 213 hectares. CENTRE OPENING on Saturday, 5 October 1996 to The covenant protects a dense Page 3 commemorate the registration of native forest of tawa, hinau, HAMISH ENSOR RESIGNS the 1000th QEII National Trust pukatea, mangeao and Page 4 open space covenant. podocarps, an underground cave TRUST RECEIVES LOTTERY His Excellency, the Governor network, stream systems and SUPPORT General and Lady Hardie Boys, impressive rock outcrops. Page 5 the Prime Minister the Rt Hon Alister Stubbs explains that a FROM THE TRUST CHAIRPERSON Jim Bolger and Mrs Bolger, and desire to protect the area and its Page 5 the founding Chairperson of the qualities was the motivation COVENANTORS WIN Trust, the Rt Hon Sir Thaddeus behind entering into an open CONSERVATION AWARD Page 6 McCarthy, were amongst the space covenant: dignitaries present. “We really love the bush, that SCULPTURE EXHIBITION ADDS The Stubbs family have is probably the main reason we VALUE TO GARDEN VISITING Page 6 protected a third of their 672 took out a covenant. And we hectare farm Awatiro, on Te Anga want to see it protected for RECENTLY REGISTERED OPEN SPACE COVENANTS Road, 24 kilometres west of future generations as well as our Page 7
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The Prime Minister, Rt Hon Jim Bolger speaking at the 1000th open space covenant event. To his right are Their Excellencies Sir Michael and Lady Hardie Boys (obscured), Mrs Bolger, Trust Chairperson Maggie Bayfield, former Trust Deputy-Chairperson Gordon Stephenson (standing), Trust Director Sir Paul Reeves, the Governor- General’s Aides-de-Camp, Alister, Ann and Antony Stubbs. Photo: Allan Johnston 1
own, and to make sure it set of three new tracks to let dairy farmer from Waotu, spoke survives untouched. people get around it more easily. of the genesis of the Trust and We thought protection by The tracks take walkers up to the role of Federated Farmers. open space covenant was the high spots to get good views “What we wanted was an best option. I am quite over the bush and local organisation run for farmers, by convinced we have done the landscape. They hope to put in farmers to give people
The sign unveiled at the conclusion of formalities. From left: Antony Stubbs, His Excellency Sir Michael Hardie Boys, Alister Stubbs, the Prime Minister and Ann Stubbs. Photo: Allan Johnston
right thing. Even if we have to more tracks, because as Mr confidence it wasn’t something leave the property, the forest is Stubbs says: “It’s not the sort of being imposed upon them. protected forever.” country you would let people go We are the only country in the They first considered formal through without tracks, world that has a queue of protection in the early 1980s particularly because of the farmers wanting to place after the then Wildlife Service presence of tomos”. restrictive covenants on their surveyed the bush for kokako The formal part of the day properties for no financial gain and other birdlife. started with the arrival by or grants except for fencing. “It is very interesting bush airforce helicopter of the Nowhere else is that happening. because it has karst formations Governor General and Lady In the US or the UK you would through it. A lot of trees in the Flardie Boys. The Prime Minister have to pay the landowner covenant only grow in limestone and Mrs Bolger arrived shortly megabucks,” he noted. areas, and it is rich in ground afterwards. “Here we have an and perching orchids,” notes Speeches were held in a independent organisation set up Alister. natural amphitheatre with the to service the requests and needs The family is hoping to use covenant as a backdrop. of farmers, rather than the covenant as a focus for Rua Anderson and other bludgeoning them into doing ecotourism, a very strong members of the Ruapuha something they didn’t want to industry in the Waitomo district. Uekaha Hapu Trust opened the do. Blackwater rafting, outdoor ceremony with karakia and a The number of heart-warming adventures and horse-trekking blessing. stories you come across .... the are all popular local pursuits. Gordon Stephenson, the personal sacrifice because people Already they have many owner of open space covenant wanted their bush protected,” he school groups coming to visit number 1, former deputy - adds. the bush, and they now have a Chairperson of the Trust and a “I am absolutely thrilled about
Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust the 1000 covenants. Not many These areas are immensely the “global conservation of us are given the opportunity important as we strive to protect imperative” and the need for to see a dream come true, yet it our unique biodiversity. Lowland each individual to take has been a dream come true for forest remnants support the responsibility for their actions. me. The 1000th covenant event greatest diversity of plants and Landowners voluntarily was really a very moving animals of all New Zealand’s protecting their land with the occasion.” forest ecosystems. If the Trust National Trust were clearly Trust Chairperson Maggie was relevant in 1977 when the taking this message on board, he Bayfield paid tribute to the conservation philosophy was far noted. commitment and work the from mainstream, and the Sir Michael then unveiled a Stubbs’ put into their covenant. Crown still subsidised the carved wooden sign (carved by “Landowners themselves clearing of native forest for Southland Regional shoulder the greatest proportion agricultural development, how Representative, Roger Sutton) of costs of establishing a much more relevant is it in the commemorating the 1000th covenant,” she said. late 1990s,” she asked. covenant. Finally Sir Michael “Thanks must go to the The Prime Minster spoke of was joined by the Prime Minister Stubbs family for their the role the National Trust and in planting a number of commitment in protecting this landowners play in helping the commemorative trees. marvellous forest. We must also government to achieve its Throughout the day, guests jj^cognise the commitment of the important goals for conservation had arrived, picnicked, walked 999 other landowners before and in particular, biodiversity. the tracks through the covenant them, who have made sacrifices The Prime Minister also and generally enjoyed the good to ensure future generations expressed his admiration for weather and splendid setting. inherit a landscape which is what had been achieved by Many people contributed to visually and ecologically diverse. landowners in his own region making the day a success, not Lowland forests and wetlands through voluntary protection. least the Stubbs family are poorly represented in the The Governor General, Sir themselves. Crown protection estate. Michael Hardie Boys, spoke of
Aroha Island Ecological Centre Opening
On a beautiful Northland day establishing the Centre, noting Aroha Island is 12 kilometres with Aroha Island looking at its that it fulfilled an important north west of Kerikeri on the best, the Trust’s Aroha Island need in Northland towards shores of the Kerikeri Inlet. ~cological Centre was officially raising awareness of Previous owners Margaret and . pened on Saturday, 23 conservation issues in general Cohn Little entered into an open November 1996. An assembly of and the plight of New Zealand’s space covenant with the Trust in 120 guests witnessed the cutting national symbol, the kiwi, in order to protect the Island and of the ribbon by Arthur Cowan, particular. prevent possible residential sheep farmer, noted Two National Trust covenant development. The property was conservationist, founding trustee life members Lindsay Charman sold to the Trust in 1991 in of the NZ Native Forests and Wendy Sporle, who are now anticipation that it would be Restoration Trust and a current involved in the Kiwi Recovery used as a focus for the Trust’s Director of the National Trust. Programme in Northland, work. Speakers included John described the various initiatives Importantly, Aroha Island Carter, MP for Northland, Pat being taken to halt the decline of contains a resident population of Baker, Chairman of the Lottery kiwi. Both expressed their the threatened New Zealand Heritage and Environment support for the Aroha Island Brown Kiwi. The existence of Committee, John Gale of the Ecological Centre, the Trust’s kiwi, the potential of the Island Miranda Naturalists Trust and work in general and the as a site for environmental Maggie Bayfield, Chairperson of opportunity for the Department education and the receipt or the National Trust Board. of Conservation and the Trust to forecast of significant donations All guest speakers praised the work together on Northland from a number of individuals foresight of the Trust in conservation issues. and charitable bodies enabled
Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust I* the National Trust Board to Since its opening, the Centre is fulfilling an important need in '« decide in December 1995 to has attracted a steady flow of day Northland by raising awareness £ proceed with the establishment and overnight visitors. It is now of conservation issues in an 3 of the Centre. clear from comments made in appropriate setting, Initial funding for new the visitors’ book that the Centre construction was underwritten by the Trust from the Dr Lucy Moore estate bequest. Dr Moore had a keen interest and enthusiasm for environmental education, particularly in the field of ecological protection. As well as a major Lottery Grants Board grant of $100,000 received in July 1996, other donations and grants for the project have exceeded $42,000, with more likely. It is intended that the Centre will be financially self-sustaining. Aroha Island is a tranquil • v/rr location ideal for families. Visitors can enjoy open space to mi relax in as well as calm estuary water with the opportunity to PI- - canoe to offshore islands or m. through the mangroves. Wendy Sporle addresses guests at the opening of the Aroha Island Ecological Visitors wishing to stay on the Centre. Island have a range of options from which to choose, be it Contact and bookings: camping, self contained cottage Further information, accommodation and hire charges can be •v r or homestay with meals obtained from the Aroha Island Ecological Centre Manager K, provided. Discount rates are Telephone: 09-407 5243 Facsimile: 09-407 5246 Z-4 available to National Trust or write to Private Box 541, Kerikeri members.
: Hamish Ensor Resigns m In May of last year Hamish with deep regret, although pursued, the Trust’s Ensor tendered his resignation to I am very sympathetic for standing in the eyes of the the Minister of Conservation your reasons for doing so. Minister, his advisors, the from the position of Trust In your time as Chair, the wider conservation Chairperson. Mr Ensor’s QEII National Trust has community and the rural resignation came as a result of gone from strength to community has grown injuries sustained in a farming strength, and I have had considerably.” accident. The then Minister of great confidence in your Hamish and his wife Belinda Conservation, Hon Denis chairmanship.” farm the 4,300 hectare Glenaan Marshall, in reluctantly Mr Ensor’s fellow Directors Station in the Upper Rakaia. I•v accepting the resignation, stated: paid tribute to his contribution Hamish is now increasingly "I am truly sorry you have at the May Board meeting and participating in farming tv decided to resign from the later noted in a letter to him activities. position of Chair of the that: Maggie Bayfield, a Director of V Queen Elizabeth II “As a result of the the Trust since 1991, was ft National Trust. I accept it initiatives you have appointed Chair in July 1996.
Trust receives Lottery Support
The Trust was fortunate to be totalled $100,000 towards the grateful for this support from the the recipient of two significant establishment of the Aroha Lottery Grants Board without grants from Lottery Grants Board Island Ecological Centre (see which these two worthwhile in 1996. article page 3). projects could not have The first totalling $22,500 was The National Trust is most advanced to assist with the removal of wilding pines from the Trust’s 177 hectare property at Miro Bay in the Marlborough Sounds. A contractor was engaged and during August and September a total of 815 trees felled and 210 seedlings pulled. Regeneration of a native forest cover, already well advanced in much of the property, will be enhanced as a result of the project. Trust Chairperson Maggie Bayfield, receiving a replica of the Lottery Grants The second grant received Board cheque from Internal Affairs Minister, Hon. Peter Dunne in August 1996.
Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust Covenantors Win Conservation Award National Trust covenantors put considerable effort into The runners-up in this took first and second prize in the controlling animal pests such as category were covenantors inaugural Aoraki Conservation goats and possums. Graeme and Chris Henrikson of Award held in 1996. The decision to award Ian the Totara Valley, Pleasant Point in The award is sponsored by overall prize was made, in part, recognition of their efforts in Trustbank South Canterbury and in recognition of the ‘significant protecting 14 hectares of is divided into two categories, personal and financial lowland forest on their property. the first recognising commitment’ that Ian has made The National Trust conservation efforts on the towards protecting the congratulates both Ian Morrison nominees own land, the second conservation values on his and Graeme and Chris Henrikson for efforts on other land. property. on their well deserved success. It was in the former category that Ian Morrison of Bush Farm, Kakahu, south of Geraldine, was declared the winner. On his 190 hectare property, Ian’s conservation objective has been to preserve in perpetuity the outstanding range of botanical and geological values. Botanically, Bush Farm has one of the largest podocarp- broadleaf-hardwood forest remnants remaining in the Canterbury region and this provides important habitat for wildlife, including kereru and Ian Morrison receives the Aoraki Conservation Award from Conservation Long Tailed Bat. Ian has fenced Minister Hon. Denis Marshall. Looking on is Rosemary Acland of the Aoraki and protected 87 hectares of his Conservation Board. Behind them is the Chair of the Board, Mr Ian Rodger (left) farm with a Trust covenant and and Ian Morrison’s son, Grant. Photo: Timaru Herald
Sculpture Exhibition adds value to Garden Visiting Visitors to the two Trust landscape of Tupare in New wood. They were enthusiastic gardens, Tupare and Hollard Plymouth and the garden rooms about the opportunity to displa)^. Gardens, during the BNZ of Hollard Gardens at Kaponga their art in such attractive and Taranaki Rhododendron Festival lend themselves admirably to appropriate “galleries” and many late last year, got more than they display of large sculptures and inquiries have been received bargained for. the exhibition was a success. about the next exhibition, plans As always, the two gardens Many visitors who had never for which are under way. were in top shape for the garden been to the gardens before were Another attraction at Tupare is enthusiasts who annually flock drawn by the sculptures. Others the recently refurbished from all over New Zealand. In who came only to see the Chapman-Taylor house which is addition, the first QEII National gardens and were unaware that now available as an exclusive Trust Sculpture Exhibition held the sculptures were in place, felt venue for small dinner parties. jointly in both gardens provided they had received good value for Work on the house has ensured art buffs with something extra to their money. that it complies to health and admire. Twenty-one artists from safety standards while retaining The idea was to bring a new Rotorua to Wellington exhibited its old-world, Tudor-style charm. artistic dimension to the already nearly 50 sculptures in a range For information on the Trust established and beautiful of media including stoneware, gardens, contact Greg Rine, surroundings which would show Taranaki andesite, Oamaru Gardens Manager, (06) 764 the gardens off and encourage stone, marble, limestone, 6544. more visitors. The flowing polyplast concrete, bronze and
Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust They had already fenced 2.2 km, Recently Registered Covenants and the Trust helped fund the remainder of fencing to secure and its work in Northland. The Far North the 21.7ha covenant. Trust is extremely grateful for Regional Representative Seon Covenant his commitment. Murray Tapp is impressed with One of the most northern Prior to recently selling his the scope of this covenant. “This hard beech forest remnants in property, John has added an area is a leading covenant, because by of puriri and totara bush, as well New Zealand has been protected fencing off their whole riparian by Terri and Gregory Seon of as some regenerating kauri and strip the adjacent mangroves are Berghans Point, Hihi. towhai bush totalling 19.5 protected and run-off into the hectares to the 151 hectares of Their 19.2 hectare covenant is harbour is reduced.” part of an estimated 600 hectares bush and geothermal wetlands Beaches, mangroves, bluffs, of native bush on the Point, he had previously protected. and three bush areas are About half the total property is which can easily be seen from included within the covenant protected with the National Coopers Beach and Mangonui. area. The forest remnants The Seon covenant is high up on Trust. include puriri, totara, taraire, the steep-sided Mt Whakaangi, The newly covenanted area kahikatea, kauri, kohekohe, rises from swamp to cover a low and gives good views to the karaka, kowhai, titoki, ngaio, hill of moderate contour. A wide ^fcnorthwest towards Ahipara and rimu, and cabbage trees. ^up to North Cape, says Terri range of species is protected by Seon. the covenant. The protection put in place by the Seons is quite critical to Central retaining the coastal kauri podocarp forest, which has very Northland high ecological values, says Lee Covenant Regional Representative Fenton A significant totara dominant Hamlin. remnant has been protected by This forest includes a rare Brett Lee on his dairy farm at creeping shrub rata and Marua, 10km east of Hikurangi. numerous large kauri. North The compact remnant of a Island brown kiwi are present, as hectare has been cut over in the are pied tits. “It’s taken quite a past, and has a good range of long time to conclude this other species with an excellent covenant, and I am delighted it lower canopy and ground cover, now registered,” he says. thanks to Brett having fenced the “The Seons faced criticism majority of it 14 years ago. from neighbours who tried to Kauri, kahikatea, karaka, pressure them into milling their rewarewa, puriri, tanekaha, timber, and it’s been quite a titoki, five-finger, mahoe, battle for them.” cabbage trees and putaputaweta Richard Perkins is dwarfed by one of “There are a number of other the large kauri in his covenant. are all present. The bush properties also now being supports a good bird population. protected in the Berghans Point Sommerville Covenant area. The Seon covenant has Perkins Family Covenant been a catalyst for the others.” John and Monica Sommerville It took almost six kilometres now have their second registered of fencing to protect the new covenant, a 3.5 hectare forest
Bannister Covenant Perkins covenant at Tinopai on remnant at Karaka Road, John Bannister of Ngawha the Kaipara Harbour. Tangowahine, 31 km north of Springs near Kaikohe already has Richard and Elizabeth Perkins Dargaville. two major covenants on his have protected all of the The bush, on medium to steep farm. John has been tirelessly coastline on their sheep and land, has been fenced for some active as an ambassador and cattle farm, including mangroves time, so it’s in good condition advocate for the National Trust and coastal forest remnants. with a full understorey says
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Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust Regional Representative Murray Tapp. Trees protected in the covenant include kauri, puriri, Open Space Covenants totara, rimu, taraire, kohekohe, red matipo, tanekaha and As at 20 February 1997, there were 1,006 registered covenants kawakawa. totalling 41,285 hectares, with a further 327 areas totalling While the block was 58,747 hectares approved and proceeding towards registration. previously logged, it now has a The breakdown by Land District (which differs from our very good canopy. It is good kiwi Regional Representatives’ boundaries) is as follows: habitat and carnivorous kauri snails are also present. REGISTERED OPEN SPACE COVENANTS AS AT 20/2/97 The Sommerville covenant is LAND DISTRICT TOTAL NO. AREA PROTECTED visible from Karaka Road (HA) because of its eye-catching North Auckland 198 3,960 conical shape and the diversity South Auckland 241 6,600 of its vegetation, Mr Tapp says. Gisborne 50 8,345 The surrounding land is being Hawkes Bay 45 1,253 taken permanently out of Taranaki 57 1,660 grazing and planted in Wellington 173 9,578 ^paroduction forestry. Marlborough 4 201 Nelson 51 1,643 Westland 3 20 Batten Covenant Canterbury 78 2,65 When James and Rhoda Otago 38 3,885 Batten retired from dairy Southland 68 1,482 farming, they bought a block of 1,006 41,285 land to run finishing cattle at Te Arai Point Road, Mangawhai, in the Wellsford district. woodpigeons and tui, Mr Tapp present in the bush is very tall Their work was only and highly visible. beginning again - they’re very says. The Hunt covenant adjoins a committed to upgrading their small District Council reserve, property, and have spent a lot of aikato W and are near to the Stephenson, time and money working on Lamb, Wilson, Pethybridge, their two covenant areas says Hunt Covenant Hedges and Mason covenants. Regional Representative Murray Marion and Mervyn Hunt are jTapp. dairy farmers who live at Waotu,
* The two blocks covenanted 22km from Putaruru. They have Livingston Covenant are rolling to steep, east-facing recently protected two To prevent a small bush sidings totalling 11.23 hectares outstanding tall tawa forest remnant disappearing as a result with a predominant cover of remnants totalling 16.25 of livestock destruction, Guy secondary forest. hectares on easy land on their Livingston of Harepepe, The biggest block of eight farm. Pirongia, protected it with the hectares has been fenced now for Fenced since 1983, the bush National Trust. Until it was six years. This block contains a has a very good understorey of fenced, the 1.54 hectare tawa wide range of native tree and ferns and supplejack, and remnant was used for shade and shrub species. supports a good bird population. shelter for sheep and cattle. The second smaller block is Before fencing it was so open a As the covenant is at the being revegetated by the Battens car could be driven through it, junction of two streams stock who have planted miro, taraire, Mervyn says. were attracted to the water and, matai, puriri, karaka, The covenanted remnants at the same time, depleted the pigeonwood, puka, lacebark, make a striking contribution to understorey. When Mr tarata, titoki, rewarewa and tawa the local landscape, and include Livingston lost some of the trees. species such as kahikatea, larger trees, he found the bush The covenanted blocks are a pukatea, kohekohe, mangeao would have to be fenced and great seed source for native and rewarewa. One rimu tree protected if it was to sustain
t. Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust % itself. He’s pleased to have the love it.” Support from Coalcorp has t bush protected now: “I get a lot It was originally a very big enabled the purchase of plants of pleasure out of it.” sawmilling area, with large tracts which the Metcalfes have used to Mamaku and wheki ferns are of land milled, with the local revegetate 800m of the also present, and a few mangeao landscape largely denuded, they Waikokowai Stream adjacent to are also growing in the covenant. say. “Our farm is virtually tree- the covenant. Regional Representative Tim free apart from some gullies,” Inside the main fence there’s Oliver understands this island of Gary says. another fence so stock can graze bush was marked on an 1864 At 460 metres, the hill is the the pastures down in summer, map of the district. “It’s highest point for some distance, but can be moved out in winter especially pleasing the bush and there are panoramic views when the water table rises. This survived for the next 130 years over to the Kaimai Range and to pasture area is not a sensitive and that it’s now formally Ngaruawahia. The Pureora habitat for the native fish, and it protected and is being Forest Park is nearby, but no helps keep the weeds under enhanced.” other nearby private land has control Dawn says. I Other nearby covenants any formal protection on its While there are many exotic include Guy’s brother Alan, who bush, they say. Regional shrubs and willows, they provide has protected six hectares of Representative Tim Oliver hopes valuable shade and protective forest in the back corner of his the example set by the Self habitat for birds and the native farm, the Firth covenant, and the family will act as a catalyst for fish. O’Connor covenant. other landowners in the district Coalcorp paid for the fencing The Waikato Branch of the to covenant. and survey of this covenant, and Royal Forest and Bird Protection it has also fenced off much of the Society helped Guy pay for some Rotowaro Downs margins of Lake Waahi. Nearby of the fencing costs. They also Covenant is the Arthur Schaare Memorial gave him some large Two endangered native fish Bush, originally covenanted by pittosporum and akeake plants species, black mudfish and giant Dawn’s mother Coralie Schaare, to enhance the edge of the kokopu make a 19.4 hectare and now owned by Greg and covenant. wetland near Huntly their home. Hayley Straker. This has banded Farmers Allan and Dawn kokopu living in it. Self Family Covenant Metcalfe live at the end of Ginn Carole and Gary’s Self’s new Road, 14 km from Huntly on the Huebner Covenant covenant at Ngaroma, is a western shores of Lake Waahi. A horseshoe shaped 22.9 valuable and visible remnant in a They have placed a covenant on hectare block on the south side district which was largely been their lake margin and wetland. of the largely forested Manaia cleared of bush after the Second The covenant consists of a Harbour, this new covenant face^k World War. The 6.4 hectare complex of pasture grasses, north and protects regenerating ™ covenant on a steep conical hill rushes, sphagnum moss, forest, shrubland and preserves an historic tiered pa scattered manuka, gorse, revegetation. site, as well as the distinctive blackberry and ferns, as well as a Rainer and Shanti Huebner bush remnant. canopy of pussy willow with have protected this land, 20km The covenant is a lower scattered swamp coprosma, south of Coromandel, to altitude outlier to Pureora Forest carex and more dense manuka. preserve the tranquillity of the Park, and is 42km southeast of This covenant protects and existing landscape and natural Te Awamutu. The bush is tall enhances the lower reaches of values next to the Mana Retreat tawa and podocarp, with many Waikokowai Stream which Centre, a holistic centre for emergents including kahikatea, provides access, spawning and seminars and retreats, and the rimu and miro as well as habitat for giant kokopu. Tara School, a Steiner-based pukatea, hoheria and kamahi. It is also an important site for primary school, which they “We purchased the farm in bitterns to nest, and a significant established up the hill from the 1989, and Gary and I just love part of Lake Waahi. covenant. Both the school and native bush,” Carole says. “I am Regional Representative Tim centre benefit immensely from pleased about the covenant Oliver says the area has been the protection of the natural because now the bush will be very modified as it was totally environment and indigenous there forever. My children just cleared for farming in the past. forest.
Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust Large kohekohe, puriri, young kauri and nikau, a few pohutukawa and the occasional maire are present, as well as numerous kowhai. Valley sides are covered with regenerating kanuka and manuka scrub which is regenerating. The new covenant also has high soil conservation values, as it rises from 100 to 200 metres above sea level, and is made up of rolling to moderately steep sidlings. A rocky stream with a continuous bush canopy and a 15 metre rocky cascading waterfall are features of this covenant.
^Clayton Covenant Nine kilometres south of The Huebner covenant with Manaia Harbour in the background. Coromandel on the main to hear kiwi, but don’t any more. larger block of forest on Maori Thames to Coromandel road at Predators may have killed them land, which has recently also Manaia Hill is the lifestyle all, and in the six years they’ve been protected. property of Kerry and Anne lived there, Kerry has shot 10 The second area is relatively Clayton. The couple, retired wild cats. “We’ve got bait small but includes two ancient dairy farmers, have protected a stations all through the bush, and huge karaka trees which 12.8 hectare forest remnant on and Environment Waikato laid a were originally brought up from their land. line of bait stations through the Otaki and planted by the then “The bush is made up of middle.” The Coromandel Maori inhabitants. They are seven little gullies along a steep Forest Park is nearby, the estimated to be about 160 years hillside, and although it doesn’t Huebner covenant is 5km to the old. look like much at first, there is a south and the Brickell covenant The third area is a gully of lot more bush in there than you 12km away at Coromandel. kanuka and regenerating tawa realise from the outside,” Anne The Claytons’ covenant and podocarps which is adjacent protects their bush from logging, to Christine’s existing covenant. Their forest is a mix of old retains the wildlife values of the This area was previously part of kanuka and manuka, and a wide remnant, and contributes to soil the Stephenson covenant, the range of bigger trees including stability. first National Trust covenant. several very old rata trees. These forest remnants are Podocarps are present, as are Hedges Covenant important in the Waotu district. kohekohe, puriri, rewarewa, Christine Hedges, a Waotu Many of the remnants are mahoe, kamahi, cabbage trees dairy farmer, has protected three already protected with the Trust and mamaku. Nikau, kohekohe small areas -fenced since 1968 - including the Stephenson, and and puriri are the dominant of her farm with the National Hunt covenants. There are species. Trust. sufficient forest remnants in the The bush gully supports a Covenanting is the final step Waotu district to sustain a wide range of birds, particularly in the protection process of healthy population of native wood pigeons which use the nearly 30 years, she says. birds. bush as a breeding area in Totalling 4.3 hectares, some of Christine grows thousands of spring, with up to 30 at one the new covenant can be seen native seedlings for planting out time, Anne says. Tui are from Lake Arapuni Road. on the farm, and her son increasing in numbers. One area is tall tawa and Stephen Hoyte, a Ruakura Anne says they used to be able mangeao, contiguous with a scientist, assists her.
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“The regeneration is well on down to the McLaren Falls them using a tape recording of :>* its way. My kids used to drive Scenic Reserve. This is one of a their calls and then shooting their motorbikes around in it, number of covenants along the them.” but now it’s hard to walk river which may be involved. From the high ridges, through. You can see 20 years This stretch of river has been commanding views of the work which is the great thing. It described as one of the most Whakatane coastline can be never finishes, and now we are scenic in the Tauranga area. seen, as well as of the getting the noxious things out, surrounding countryside. including pulling out the Melville Covenant The Department of barberry which has crept into Jack and Jean Melville of Conservation helped develop the the blocks.” Whakatane have joined forces public Ngatapuotoi walkway Killing rats by bait to reduce with their son Keith and through part of the covenant, as bird predation is also keeping daughter in law Penny to protect part of a local network of them busy now. “It’s a long, slow a 12.4 hectare tawa covered walkways from Whakatane to process,” she says. valley five kilometres southeast Ohope. Bay of Plenty Electricity generously paid for the boardwalk over the peat bogs in the bottom of the gullies. “Toi was one of the first inhabitants here somewhere about 800AD, and his pa was only two miles nearer the coast from here. The walkway is named after him, and follows the track of another renegade, an I ancestor of Te Kooti.”
Ohiwa Harbour to Bryans Bay Covenants A magnificent cliff face of pohutukawa has been protected with a series of new covenants east of Opotiki. The cliffs Part of the Hedges covenant. contain natural features of national significance. Regional Bay of Plenty of Whakatane. Representative Stephen Parr Jack Melville says mature explains the covenants Grant Covenant rimu were logged out of their encompass the total stretch of Started off by Bob and bush years ago, but now there 100 metre high cliff face from Maureen Bryan, and completed are a dozen young ones up to 10 the Ohiwa Harbour in the west by the Grants, this 4.6 hectare metres tall coming through the through to Bryans Beach in the covenant in two areas is adjacent tawa canopy. east. to the Burke covenant near “We were very much relieved The covenant series starts McLaren Falls. to get this area covenanted, and with Pauline Tuck’s 1.7 hectares The covenant is 30km from the Department of Conservation of protected pohutukawa on the Tauranga on the Kaimai Road, is doing a good job assisting edge of her Onekawa Mata and it protects a totara and with possum control and the Farm, the existing Gawn tanekaha remnant along one side population has been significantly covenant, moves to a small of the margin of the reduced. council area and then three small Mangakorengorengo River. Tui numbers have built up but private sections, each with a The Western Bay of Plenty both mynas and magpies are small area protected. Eric and District Council has been “playing havoc” with the native Mary Anderson have 0.2 interested in putting in a scenic birds, he says. “I have been hectares protected, while Bruce walkway from State Highway 29 controlling them by attracting and Noeline Adams have 0.5 ha
Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust and Linda and Ken Dailey have over a major gully system on has made a substantial 0.6 ha of the cliffs protected. their Hawke’s Bay farm. commitment in protecting a There has been a lot of major part of the farm. Not interest in this project from the many people would sacrifice this
Department of Conservation, Campbell-Snelling and much land as it is all too easy to Royal Forest and Bird Protection Snelling Covenant sell for monetary rewards says Society, and Project Crimson, Gillian Campbell-Snelling, Regional Representative Stephen says. The covenants who has a degree in fine arts and Malcolm Piper. protect archaeological, cultural, botany, and teaches with her On easy rolling limestone hill landscape and foreshore values, Canadian husband Douglas country, the new covenant areas he says. Snelling at Wairoa College, cover a wide variety of The pohutukawa has an admits she is as equally botany- vegetation: forest remnant, understorey of taupata, houpara minded as she is farm-minded. secondary forest, scrub, and and kawakawa. A report in 1991 “When a native tree puts wetlands. by Geoff Walls of DOC found down its roots it basically has a The smallest of their this was the only pohutukawa home,” she says. Gillian sees covenants is a three hectare remnant on the coast which had their farm as a huge sculpture. block dominated by spring-fed not been significantly disturbed. The three new covenanted areas Lake Waiparere, which sits next link the farm together. to their homestead. Estimated to In total they have covenanted be 24 metres deep, the lake is ISBORNE 69.8 hectares of their farm, thought to be fed from Lake Berkahn Covenant “Waiparere”, 15 km up the Waikaremoana. At one end of Mangapoike Valley, some 25 km the lake is a pre-European canoe Tawa seedlings carpet the from Wairoa. The covenant post and a sleeping pit. forest floor in many places in fulfils a wish that the recently “The lake is a source of water David Berkahn’s new covenant deceased Mrs D.P. Goodall, for the whole farm, and even on his farm at Tahora, 74km Gillian’s mother, and former during a long drought we have northwest of Gisborne. owner of the property, had for no water problems. It is a big The 5.3 hectare forest the farm’s unique areas of flora reservoir feeding all the creeks.” remnant clothes the top of a and fauna. “Around the lake we are small hill which can be easily And the covenant is a tribute revegetating with kahikatea, seen from the inland loop road to the dedication of Gillian, who rimu, kowhai and cabbage trees through the Poverty Bay hill country Regional Representative Malcolm Piper says. There is little protected bush i this area, and logging tracks re still evident on the north side of the bush. The bush is predominantly mature tawa with a 16 to 18 metre canopy, with a mix of tawa, fuchsia and mahoe along the ridges and higher slopes. Some of the tawa are huge, with a diameter of more than two metres. Other species present include rimu, kahikatea, totara, beech and matai. David Berkahn fenced this sheltered bush remnant 10 years ago, so it was recovering well from previous grazing when the Trust started negotiating with him. His parents, Daisy and Peter, already have a covenant The smallest of the Snelling covenants includes Lake Waiparere.
Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust with one side having an established manuka “nursery”. The lake is a refuge for birds, and is a no shooting area, as is the remainder of the property.” A recent survey counted 42 species of bird living on their farm, many of which are wetland birds, including pukeko, blue heron, shag, kingfisher, black swan, Canadian geese, and a variety of duck species. Both larger covenants have colonies of North Island pied tomtit. The larger block was covenanted largely to protect the habitat of these tiny birds. Tawa is the dominant species Block A of the Hawke’s Bay Trustee Co. Ltd’s covenant. of the middle-sized covenanted block, with pukatea, kahikatea, over the rolling mudstone hill small but important remnant of totara, pigeonwood, mamaku country of the Omakere district. kohekohe and tawa forest on and many other fern species Two of the three blocks had their property. present. These frame a large been fenced before the National This one hectare covenant basin which also features a small Trust began negotiating with the contains the most inland semi lake, once considered to be one station, while the third and coastal kohekohe stand in the of the district’s finest duck largest block was fenced with locality, while other remnants shooting ponds. Trust help. nearby are all of lowland forest The largest covenant of 54 The three blocks make up the types. hectares contains mainly kanuka major part of the Bush Trig area The Tuck’s new covenant is with an understorey of which was recommended for clearly visible from Richmond regenerating bush. Open areas in protection by the Department of Road, Inglewood as the bush is this covenant will be revegetated Conservation in 1993. They are on a high point. The Royal with native tree species. one of 40 of the most important Forest and Bird Protection This new covenant is adjacent sites recommended for Society assisted the Tucks with to the Taylor covenant, and near protection in the Eastern the fencing costs of this to the Munro covenant. Hawke’s Bay Ecological District, covenant. says Regional Representative Marie Taylor. Hawke’s Bay anawatu “The National Trust is M Hawke’s Bay Trustee Co delighted to be able to formalise Field Covenant protection for these three Ltd Covenant Martin Field has protected a remnants, as they are of very Three impressive bush 1.15 hectare bush remnant high quality,” she says. remnants in a very open growing in a flat and peaty The bush in all three blocks is landscape have been protected swamp nestled between sand largely tawa, titoki, kahikatea on a major Central Hawke’s Bay hills seven kilometres from and totara forest, with ngaio and station. Bulls. kaikomako present in the middle Oueroa Station on Farm Road, Pukatea is the main species in area. Kahikatea and totara trees 18km east of Waipukurau, is the block, but there are also as tall as 20 metres are present. managed by James Mackie, who matai, tawa, titoki, kahikatea, winters 5400 ewes and 1000 ngaio, kawakawa, and coprosma cattle on the property. Taranaki present. The bush blocks are nearly all Martin, a dairy farmer, had that remain of the mixed Tuck Covenant already fenced the bush with a broadleaf-podocarp forest which David and Karen Tuck of good conventional fence, but would have originally extended Inglewood have protected a extended it to include some large
Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust trees before finalising the Carthew Covenant This was one of the last tasks covenant. before his death, and the The Carthew family of Bill, This is a rare remnant, and is Carthews have named their new Diana and their son Simon took an extension of the covenant “Suckling’s Bush” in over Turnberry Farm near neighbouring Moore covenant, his memory. Alfredton in 1992, in order to bringing the total area under The 15 hectare tawa remnant expand their Coopworth stud protection to five hectares. lies to the west of Pori Road, just breeding operations. above its intersection with SH52, Despite the work involved in airarapa between Alfredton and W developing a major farming Pongaroa. It is rich in podocarps, Jones Covenant operation, one of their priorities and supports a varied bird was to call in former National In between his regular tours population, with large numbers Trust Regional Representative with the New Zealand of kereru and tui. Symphony Orchestra, Bud and Eddie Suckling to assess the Elizabeth Jones are enthusiastic quality of their largest bush area. conservationists. Bud is the orchestras percussionist, and has also spent several years running the New ^Zealand Youth Jazz Orchestra. Elizabeth pursues an active professional career, lecturing at the Wellington College of Education. During their off-duty times, they have converted two dairy blocks into wildlife refuges by damming the drainage channels and creating a number of lakes and wetlands. Their two new National Trust covenants totalling 86 hectares are just to the east of the Tararua Forest Park, in the valley of the Mangatainoka River. Bud and Elizabeth Jones in front of one of their created lakes. When they began creating the ^^okai Parera covenants, the land was almost entirely pasture, with just a few bush remnants in the steep gullies. Since that time tens of thousands of trees have been planted, of 150 different species. Birdlife, which had been unknown locally, flocked to the new habitat, so that at present it supports scaup, dabchick and shoveller, and black swans, all of which are breeding. Occasional visitors have included bittern and brown teal. The wetlands have featured in a number of wildlife calendars and publications, and continue to be extended and improved as a haven for birdlife. The Carthew covenant.
Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust Nelson Stuarts have completed for the “In our lifetime a new forest region. will grow. Covenanting it is Cable Bay Farm The bush in this new simply a formal way of Covenant covenant - about 40 hectares - is protecting what my parents mixed podocarps and associated began.” A day spent making your way hardwoods, including tawa, from The Glen to Cable Bay over beech and kamahi. the Cable Bay walkway is one of Marlborough The vegetation contains the most interesting and species common in Marlborough Marlborough District spectacular walks in Nelson - and which either reach their Council Covenant and only a few minutes north of western limits here or are very the city. A magnificent backdrop to rare further west says Shannel It takes you from the huge Blenheim is being created by the Courtney of DOC, Nelson. natural breakwater of the Marlborough District Council. Boulder Bank, which starts at “These include tawa, kohekohe, The Wither Hills Farm Park, a Coprosma crassifolia, and leafless Mackays Bluff, right next to the 1046 hectare farm managed to lawyer, Rubus squarrosus." small village of The Glen, and up control soil erosion, has been and over the flanks of 629 metre “Pukatea and kohekohe are opened for public recreation. Drumduan and down to the also close to their southern With a “Walk the Withers” picturesque Cable Bay. limits in the South Island here. promotion, the Council is The Cable Bay walkway Species such as velvet fern and promoting the area as a haven traverses the farm of Barbara and jointed fern, while common in for walkers, and the “place to Ian Stuart, two practical farmers the northern parts of New hike, bike or just amble your with a strong public spirit. “We Zealand are rare in the South way to freedom”. really enjoy sharing the scenic Island, only being able to survive Walking times vary from half and natural beauty of the farm in warm, coastal situations in an hour to three hours, with others,” Barbara says. Nelson and Marlborough.” including the two to three hour They have recently added to Mixed broadleaf shrubs are Mt Vernon track, which gives their impressive protection emerging through gorse in the one of the finest vantage points record with a second National regeneration area. over Marlborough. Trust covenant over bush and This land was originally The farm park includes a 41 regenerating forest on the owned by James Mackay and his hectare National Trust covenant southern slopes of Drumduan. family, who were pioneers of the over a kanuka-covered gully and This new covenant of 91 area. They mainly farmed the associated 800 metre riparian hectares is only a stone’s throw flats, and subsequent owners strip downstream of the gully on south from their first, a 120 tackled the steep hills of The the banks of Sutherland Stream. hectare cliff, coastal forest and Glen for sheep farming, Ian says. Among largely bare and dry beech and kamahi forest higher “Selective felling was done on hills used for grazing, the up on the slopes of Drumduan. the tops and steep gullies, and kanuka gully is an oasis, and a The Stuarts also have a small the accessible land was clear- protection against the severe area of private protected bush on felled up to the early 1920s.” erosion suffered on many of the the coast at Cable Bay. Ian’s parents Fred and Tess other hills of the park. Regional Representative Stuart bought some of this The riparian strip has a mix of Martin Conway explains that original Mackay land in 1965, mahoe, akiraho, five-finger, this covenant provides a vital and the covenant block is part of prostrate kowhai, pigeonwood link between the existing that land. and hebe species. covenant to the north and a Even at the time they bought Original cover may have been similar sized area of private the land the area now covenanted totara, matai, and perhaps black protected land to the south. The was marginal farm land, Ian says. beech with many different three areas make up the largest “Fred and Tess made the broadleaf species, but burning area of protected private land decision to allow the land to brought scrub and tussock into along the Tasman Bay coast. quietly regenerate. Now it’s quite the landscape says Regional The Nelson City Council also exciting to see kanuka on a ferny Representative Martin Conway. helped with funding the fencing area, and lacebark and The farm was set up to of the new covenant, which is a whiteywood emerging through a demonstrate farming techniques recognition of the protection the gorse-clad hillside.” on highly erodible soils, so this
Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust new covenant is a practical tussock grassland, beech forest, The mountain beech gives expansion of the original aim of and alpine tops with small way to excellent stands of the farm. valleys. narrow-leaved snow tussock Revegetation work to enhance The covenanted block within Chionochloa rigida and slim the kanuka forest, as well as the the property is one of the best snow tussock C. macro, on the dry shrubland areas and tussock examples of montane valley Maitland Saddle. grasslands has already been vegetation identified in the The head of Snowy Gorge carried out. Protected Natural Areas supports the most extensive area To walk the Wither Hills, start programme, and extends from of blue tussock (Poa colensoi) in at the end of Redwood Street in 885m to 2000m above sea level. the district, and is surrounded Blenheim. It contains mountain beech, by rock and scree communities.
Coastal Otago MacKintosh and Orr Covenant Veterinary scientists Marjorie Orr and Colin MacKintosh have protected a quarter of their lifestyle block on Scurr Road, south of Saddle Hill, 15km from the middle of Dunedin City. This 7.5 ha coastal lowland covenant is a gully of podocarp hardwood forest which has been logged and grazed in the past, as well as burnt by fires, says Regional Representative Helen Clarke. Part of the open space covenant component of the Wither Hills Farm Park. Now it is dominated by kanuka in the drier areas, Canterbury slim snow tussock, snow broadleaf in the damper areas, as tussock, all on hill slopes, blue well as pittosporum species, and Weatherall Estate tussock on valley floodplains some Hall’s totara emerging Covenant and rock and scree fellfields on through the canopy. Unique high country mountain sides. Apart from the adjacent Watt ^^egetation at the head of the Maitland Valley catchment of Lake Ohau has been protected with a whole title covenant. The 1679 hectare covenant protects montane valley vegetation at Lake Ohau Station, which neighbours Birchwood Station and Lake Ohau. Lake Ohau Station has been in the Weatherall family’s ownership since the late 1940s. It is one of the few South Island high country runs which are wholly in freehold title. It runs from the western shores of Lake Ohau to the Snowy Gorge and Maitland Valleys in the west. It’s mainly Montane valley vegetation of the Weatherall Estate covenant.
Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust . !» covenant of 9.8 hectares, other covenants from the main South remnants are part of the once ■t nearby covenants are of different Hillend to Dipton Road, and extensive Seaward Bush. *7 forest types. particularly from State Highway Semi-coastal forest of n “The low coastal hills between 6 which runs up the Oreti Valley. regenerating Hall’s totara, & Saddle Hill and the Taieri River kamahi and peppertree, the bush mouth represent land of low links in with two nearby productivity for pastoral Brand Covenant covenants of Irving and farming. Much of the land has Barry Brand and his two sons Bruygoms. A botanical survey recently been used for exotic Terry and Nigel have three new found mistletoe, which is on the forestry plantations, and in the covenants adding up to four national threatened plant list. past 10 years there has been a hectares on their sheep farm at Kahikatea, rimu and miro move towards subdivision of the land closest to Brighton and Dunedin into life-style blocks,” Helen says.
Si* Southland Day Covenant Brothers Malcolm and Warwick Day who farm at South 0: Hillend, 16km from Winton, are some of Southland’s keenest m e covenantors. Already they have protected tussock wetlands and bush remnants on their low, east facing hill country which slopes to the Oreti River Valley. Their most recent covenant is m made up of three forest remnants V, adding up to 12.3 hectares, all of Marjorie Orr and Colin Mackintosh in a clearing on the southern edge of their z-v which is podocarp and silver covenant. beech forest in four gullies. The podocarps include matai, SELLING YOUR COVENANTED LAND? kahikatea, rimu and totara, but If you are selling land with a covenant on it please notify the there is also a big variety of other Trust or the Regional Representative in your area. species such as pokaka, red and We need to know who the new owners are so the weeping matipo, marbleleaf, Representative can visit them and go through the covenant m% broadleaf, and narrow-leaved document and discuss ongoing management of the area. mahoe. Also, if you are the initial covenantor we need your new The canopy and sub-canopy address so we can continue to send the newsletter and Trust are fairly dense, and there’s a information to you. good standard of water quality in the several small streams says Regional Representative Roger Trust People assistant Commissioner of Sutton. Crown hands for Auckland from “The three Day properties, Rex Smith 1981-1987, and was District with their diverse ecological Long-time Auckland Regional Manager for the Department of values, combined with a high Rep Walter Willis has retired hands from then until 1990. level of good land management, from the Trust, and he has been During this time he had a lot P combine to make this something replaced by Rex Smith. of contact with the farming ;.S of a demonstration area for Rex has broad experience in community, as he was P farming with nature,” he says. land management and responsible for programmes of it It’s easy to see the new administration, and worked as farm lending as well as £ [, Newsletter of the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust I f negotiating covenant agreements Congratulations to N.Z. Native Forests under the Reserves Act 1977. He lives in Remuera, and is director Restoration Trust of his own sports management The National Trust extends the Waitomo area for the 1000th company. congratulations to the New open space covenant event, were Zealand Native Forests able to be present at Pureora Lenore Duffy Restoration Trust on being Forest to witness the Minister of Lenore Duffy is our new awarded the Loder Cup. Conservation award the Native Assistant Trust Secretary, The Loder Cup is New Forests Restoration Trust’s Chair, replacing Jenny Stratford. Zealand’s premier conservation Owen Lewis with the Loader Lenore has many years of award and is awarded annually Cup. experience in the medical field for contributions towards the as a technician and office protection and cultivation of our administrator. She has worked in native plants. The work of the Queen Elizabeth II a variety of businesses and her The Native Forests National Trust is supported by skills and experience are of great Restoration Trust, of which Trust value to the Trust. Director Arthur Cowan is a Originally from the South founding trustee, has brought Island, she has lived in about the permanent protection ^^^ellington for many years, and of significant areas of native two of her three adult children forest throughout New Zealand. live in Australia. Trust Directors, who were in Lottery Grants Board
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Queen Elizabeth II National Trust BOARD OF DIRECTORS
% Appointed by the Minister of Conservation in terms of the QEII National Trust Act 1977 Margaret Bayfield of Inglewood, Chairperson Patricia Seymour OBE of Gisborne Sir Paul Reeves GCMG, GCVO, QSO of Auckland
Elected by National Trust Members Arthur Cowan MBE, JP of Otorohanga Dr Brian Molloy of Christchurch
TRUST MANAGER Tim Porteous
REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES FAR NORTH GISBORNE WELLINGTON Fenton Hamlin Malcolm Piper Contact Wellington office below Waipapa Road, PO Box 68, Kairoa Station Kerikeri Private Bag 7107 NELSON/MARLBOROUGH Tel: 0-9-407 7562 Gisborne Martin Conway Fax: 0-9-407 5579 Tel/Fax: 0-6-867 0255 Palmer Road, R D 1 Brightwater CENTRAL NORTHLAND TAUMARUNUI Nelson Murray Tapp Ross Bishop Tel/Fax: 0-3-542 3712 Ferry Road Community Mail Box 50 Waipu Owhango CANTERBURY Tel/Fax: 0-9-432 0305 Tel: 0-7-895 4747 David Webster 17 Kiteroa Place AUCKLAND HAWKES BAY Cashmere Rex Smith Marie Taylor Christchurch P O Box 17-286 POBox 137 Tel: 0-3-337 6047 Greenlane, Auckland Bay View Tel: 0-9-622 2303 Napier COASTAL OTAGO Fax: 0-9-622 2505 Tel: 0-6-836 7018 Helen Clarke Mobile: 021-904 380 Fax: 0-6-836 7048 165 Belford Street Waverley WAIKATO MANAWATU/WANGANUI Dunedin Tim Oliver Bruce Kirk Tel: 0-3-454 3320 Maungatautari Glendevon Fax: 0-3-454 3321 R D 2, Cambridge RD 4 Tel: 0-7-827 4424 Palmerston North SOUTHLAND Fax: 0-7-827 4448 Tel: 0-6-325 8723 Roger Sutton 16 Vogel Street BAY OF PLENTY WAIRARAPA Invercargill Stephen Parr John Kirby Tel/Fax: 0-3-215 7810 Harman Parr & Assoc, PO Box 444, “Pounui” 777 Cameron Road, Tauranga Tauweru, R D 9 Tel: 0-7-578 7658 Office: 0-7-577 6129 Masterton Fax: 0-7-578 2670 Tel/Fax: 0-6-378 7458
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