Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 28, 2022 3:58:54 GMT 12
KAUMĀTUA CALLS FOR RETURN OF HICKFORD PARK LAND
Peter Moeahu says part of Hickford Park was wrongly taken from Puketapu hapū and should be returned by New Plymouth District Council.
NPDC predecessor the Taranaki County Council took the Bell Block land, known as the Mangati E Māori Reserve, in 1968 under the Public Works Act.
Moeahu told the council's Te Huinga Taumatua committee the block was taken for a sewage works - the now disused oxidation ponds. But only part of it was needed and in 1978 a secondary use, for recreation, was authorised under the act......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/467924/kaumatua-calls-for-return-of-hickford-park-land
Peter Moeahu says part of Hickford Park was wrongly taken from Puketapu hapū and should be returned by New Plymouth District Council.
NPDC predecessor the Taranaki County Council took the Bell Block land, known as the Mangati E Māori Reserve, in 1968 under the Public Works Act.
Moeahu told the council's Te Huinga Taumatua committee the block was taken for a sewage works - the now disused oxidation ponds. But only part of it was needed and in 1978 a secondary use, for recreation, was authorised under the act......
www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/467924/kaumatua-calls-for-return-of-hickford-park-land