DOIA REQ 0019151 response.pdf

10 September 2025

Ref: DOIA-REQ-0019151

Stephen Prendergast
[FYI request #31948 email]

Tēnā koe Stephen Prendergast

We refer to your email of 8 August 2025 to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)
requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following information:

This request concerns the discussions, advice and information that MBIE has led or been party to on
the ongoing operation of the former RAL ski fields operated by Pure Turoa and Whakapapa Holdings.

Please supply the following information from 1 May 2025 to present .

1) All information and advice and correspondence provided to the government including ministers
and related officials that covers the circumstances or operation of the ski facilities formerly owned by
RAL.

2) All correspondence engaged in by MBIE that materially informs that information or advice.

On 5 September 2025 MBIE provided you a partial decision on three of the six documents identified as in
scope. MBIE advised you that it needed to extend the time available to make a decision on the three
remaining documents and that a response would be sent to you no later than 18 September 2025.
Please see below a decision on the remainder of your request. Please note we have provided you with
only the extracts from the Kānoa – Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit Weekly Report,
rather than the whole document, as this is the information relevant to your request. An annex with the
extracts is enclosed.
#  Date
Document ID
Description/Title
Decision
Kānoa – Regional Economic Development &
1  12/06/2025  REQ-0015436
Released
Investment Unit Weekly Report to 11 June 2025
Kānoa – Regional Economic Development &
2  18/06/2025  REQ-0015539
Investment Unit Weekly Report to 18 June 2025
Released
Kānoa – Regional Economic Development &
3  30/07/2025  REQ-0017854
Released
Investment Unit Weekly Report to 30 July 2025

Please note some information is withheld under the following sections of the act:
•  9(2)(f)(iv), to maintain the constitutional conventions for the time being which protect the
confidentiality of advice tendered by Ministers of the Crown and officials;
•  9(2)(j), to enable a Minister of the Crown or any public service agency or organisation holding the
information to carry on, without prejudice or disadvantage, negotiations (including commercial
and industrial negotiations).

I do not consider that the withholding of this information is outweighed by public interest considerations
in making the information available.

If you wish to discuss any aspect of your request or this response, or if you require any further assistance,
please contact [email address].

You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Information
about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802
602.

Nāku noa, nā

Tane Dewes
Manager Operations Support and Improvement
Kānoa – Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit

30/07/2025  REQ-0017854
"On 28 July 2025, the High Court agreed that the proceedings from both
Kānoa –
Patutokotoko and Tūwharetoa wil  be heard together in a ﬁve-day ﬁxture starting
Regional
on 9 March 2026. Whakapapa Holdings 2024 Limited (WHL) are party to the
Economic
Tūwharetoa proceedings.
Development &
Investment Unit  Neither WHL or Pure Turoa Limited have formal y been joined to the Patutokotoko
Weekly Report
proceedings yet. No additional iwi/hapū groups have yet applied to participate.
to 30 July 2025

A timetable for the hearing is expected to be agreed to shortly. "