Post by Kiwi Frontline on Feb 23, 2023 0:32:15 GMT 12
MĀORI HATE CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT, EX-DOC MINISTER TELLS MPS
Māori hate the Department of Conservation, MPs on the Māori affairs select committee were told this morning by former Conservation Minister Poto Williams.
She said that was what she had been told by Māori Crown Relations Minister Kelvin Davis last year when she was first appointed minister in charge of the Department of Conservation (DOC).
“One of the first things that minister Davis said to me was that Māori hate DOC,” she told the committee.
“‘They have a really poor relationship with the department so good luck to you sister,” he had said.
He said DOC was very important in Treaty of Waitangi settlements with iwi because so many rivers, mountains and sacred sites were in Crown ownership as part of the Conservation estate.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/maori-hate-conservation-dept-ex-doc-minister-tells-mps/WCNEOJIAIJFTZHGXI6QWXB3NEM/
Māori hate the Department of Conservation, MPs on the Māori affairs select committee were told this morning by former Conservation Minister Poto Williams.
She said that was what she had been told by Māori Crown Relations Minister Kelvin Davis last year when she was first appointed minister in charge of the Department of Conservation (DOC).
“One of the first things that minister Davis said to me was that Māori hate DOC,” she told the committee.
“‘They have a really poor relationship with the department so good luck to you sister,” he had said.
He said DOC was very important in Treaty of Waitangi settlements with iwi because so many rivers, mountains and sacred sites were in Crown ownership as part of the Conservation estate.....
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/maori-hate-conservation-dept-ex-doc-minister-tells-mps/WCNEOJIAIJFTZHGXI6QWXB3NEM/