Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 14, 2016 17:30:13 GMT 12
PUKEATUA QUARRY APPLICANT'S RESOURCE CONSENT REJECTED
A resource consent applicant is stunned his proposal to reopen a historic quarry was rejected on the strength of oral history.
Palmerston North's Dr Don Stewart was scathing regarding the decision by independent commissioners for the Waikato Regional Council to decline his proposal to mine for blue metal aggregate at the Pukeatua quarry south of Cambridge.
"I am stunned and shattered that it was made on that basis . . . that in spite of archeological and other evidence that we've gathered from experts and some documentary evidence, oral history from Maori with mana must take precedence over any other evidence," Stewart said.
But oral history is an important part of Maori knowledge transmission, said Ngati Koroki Kahukura spokesman Rahui Papa…..
www.stuff.co.nz/business/78693469/pukeatua-quarry-applicants-resource-consent-rejected
A resource consent applicant is stunned his proposal to reopen a historic quarry was rejected on the strength of oral history.
Palmerston North's Dr Don Stewart was scathing regarding the decision by independent commissioners for the Waikato Regional Council to decline his proposal to mine for blue metal aggregate at the Pukeatua quarry south of Cambridge.
"I am stunned and shattered that it was made on that basis . . . that in spite of archeological and other evidence that we've gathered from experts and some documentary evidence, oral history from Maori with mana must take precedence over any other evidence," Stewart said.
But oral history is an important part of Maori knowledge transmission, said Ngati Koroki Kahukura spokesman Rahui Papa…..
www.stuff.co.nz/business/78693469/pukeatua-quarry-applicants-resource-consent-rejected