File Reference: 19-E- 0107 / docCM-5727169
15 March 2019
T. Bensem
an <[FYI request #9603 email]>
Dear T Benseman
Thank you for your Official Information Act request to the Department of Conservation,
dated 16 February 2019.
Your request and our response is set out below.
1. Please provide copies of attendance (numbers) records and all speech transcripts of
East Cape meetings held at Maungaroa Marae on 25th November 2018 and any other
venues/dates past and planned in the east cape area discussing pest control.
The information you have requested does not exist.
2. For those meetings and the meetings planned on the cape for March 1, 2 and 3 2019,
please provide maps of the areas where pest control is/was proposed and areas where
it is ruled out near the coast to appease hunters on the fringes of Raukumara. Please
also explain how the speakers were paid including all methods, monetary and non
monetary.
The information you have requested is not held by the Department of Conservation, and
the Department does not know if this information exists. (The meeting you refer to was
not organised by the Department.)
3. Regarding huts in the Raukumara, please provide a list of the locations, annual past
and planned expenditure per hut or in entirety if the former is not available. Please
also provide an accounting of all tracking and roading costs for the Raukumara from
2012 to 2018 and any planned expenditure going forward.
Name
Location
Type
Mangatutara Hut
2029891-5791456
staff accommodation
Upper Ruatahunga hut 2030525-5784995
staff accommodation
Lower Ruatahunga hut 2032704-5778715
staff accommodation
Mangaotane hut
2018740-5772411
visitor hut
Mangakirikiri hut
2010763-5782381
visitor hut
Oronui hut
2039330-5795429
visitor hut
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Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai
Lower North Island Regional Office
Private Bag 11010, Palmerston North 4442
www.doc.govt.nz
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Expenditure on huts and tracks within the Raukumara from 2012 to 2018 cannot be
isolated from general expenditure due to budgets being combined for whole districts
and the Raukumara being split across two regions. Major changes to operational
boundaries, business planning processes and budget codes makes the data
incomparable and unable to be confirmed as specific to the Raukumara.
The combined planned operational expenditure for the 19/20 financial year is as
follows:
Raukumara huts: $6000
Raukumara track and roads: $7500
Note that this excludes depreciation and personnel cost.
4. Regarding wild cattle in the Raukumara "managed area" please provide the most
recent locations you have as it states on your website here that cattle are present for
hunting. https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/things-to-
do/hunting/where-to-hunt/east-coast/gisborne-raukumara-hunting/where-to-
hunt/raukumara-conservation-park/
The information you have requested does not exist.
Yours sincerely
Reg Kemper
Director Operations, Lower North Island
0272 4856 860 |
[email address]