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South Island pastoral lease MAP
TO DATE, tenure reviews have
been completed on 12 pastoral leases in Southland and Otago.
From these, 44,555ha of productive land has been freeholded by
the leaseholders, 10,676ha of which has been covenanted for conservation
or other purposes.
A further 27,555ha has been transferred to the Department of Conservation.
Public access rights to this land has been guaranteed in nine
of the 12 cases.
A further four proposals have reached the approval stage and if
these are signed up then a total of 52,607ha will have been freeholded
with 30,509ha acquired for the Department of Conservation.
lain MacLean, press secretary for Lands Minister Denis Marshall,
said the legal status of these tenure reviews did not depend on
he success of the Crown Pastoral Land Bill.
These voluntary reviews had been completed under the 1948 Land
Act "and cannot be undone."
[Reprinted in 'Public Access', No. 7, June 1996]