Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jan 21, 2020 3:40:11 GMT 12
DEBATE HEATS UP ON PROPOSAL TO DROP TAUPŌ'S WAIHAHA SKI LANE
A proposal to remove the ski lane at Waihaha on Lake Taupō is creating waves.
Tension mounted at a public meeting to discuss it and two other proposed amendments to the Lake Taupō Navigational Safety Bylaw last week.
Debate got most heated with the third item - the suggested removal of the ski lane at Waihaha - with some of those in the room putting it down to a 'them and us' argument between boaties and Māori landowners.
Hapu representatives in attendance indicated they had an opinion that, other than one property, Waihaha Bay was Māori land and went right to the water.
While Freeth and Cairns said they had been unable to verify this through Land Information New Zealand, archaeologist and local historian Perry Fletcher said on Sunday that the rising of the lake level due to the construction of the Control Gates in 1941, meant Māori land at Waihaha went not just to the water but that it extended past the lake edge.
"It goes out a good 50 metres into the existing lake."....
www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/taupo-times/118898594/debate-heats-up-on-proposal-to-drop-taups-waihaha-ski-lane
A proposal to remove the ski lane at Waihaha on Lake Taupō is creating waves.
Tension mounted at a public meeting to discuss it and two other proposed amendments to the Lake Taupō Navigational Safety Bylaw last week.
Debate got most heated with the third item - the suggested removal of the ski lane at Waihaha - with some of those in the room putting it down to a 'them and us' argument between boaties and Māori landowners.
Hapu representatives in attendance indicated they had an opinion that, other than one property, Waihaha Bay was Māori land and went right to the water.
While Freeth and Cairns said they had been unable to verify this through Land Information New Zealand, archaeologist and local historian Perry Fletcher said on Sunday that the rising of the lake level due to the construction of the Control Gates in 1941, meant Māori land at Waihaha went not just to the water but that it extended past the lake edge.
"It goes out a good 50 metres into the existing lake."....
www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/taupo-times/118898594/debate-heats-up-on-proposal-to-drop-taups-waihaha-ski-lane