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High Country Accord represents landholders who own farms with
perpetual leasehold title |
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| 26 Aug 2009 |
Government
delivers on high country promise
New Zealand Government press release
The Government has today announced a three-prong
plan for Crown Pastoral land - effective stewardship of the land,
better economic use, and improved relationships with lessees and
high country communities... |
| 12 June 2009 |
Costly
end to failed bid for access
Otago Daily Times
Fish
and Game New Zealand could be stung with a six-figure legal
bill after a failed bid to get legal access to Crown pastoral lease
land.
The two respondents to the High Court action
instigated by Fish and Game, the High Country Accord, representing
pastoral lessees, and their landlord, Land Information New Zealand
(Linz), have both said they are seeking reimbursement of their costs.
The High Country Accord has said the case cost
it $250,000, while Linz would not reveal its costs or how much it
was seeking from the action heard by the High Court in Wellington... |
| 16 May 2009 |
Minister
attacks Fish and Game NZ
The Press
Agriculture Minister David Carter has accused
Fish & Game
New Zealand of causing high-country farmers "a lot of anxiety"
by taking legal action over public access rights. Fish & Game
failed in an attempt to get the High Court to determine that South
Island pastoral leaseholders did not have exclusive rights to control
access to their land..... |
| 15 May 2009 |
High
Court: Farmers' choice to allow hunting and fishing on land
National Business Review
Farmers have the right to keep fisherman and
hunters off their land following a High Court decision on the issue.
Fish & Game New Zealand had taken a case
to court against the Attorney General over Crown lands and the trustees
of the High Country Accord Trust so the court could clarify public
access issues to high country farm land for hunting and fishing.
Fish & Game wanted greater public access
over high country stations, which were granted under the Land Act
1948... |
| 15 May 2009 |
Judge
finds in favour of farmers on high country access
The Press
Fish & Game New Zealand is weighing up whether
to appeal against a legal ruling on public access to the South Island
high country.
The High Court in Wellington has determined that
high-country farmers have exclusive possession of pastoral-lease
land, giving them the right to control access... |
| 15 May 2009 |
High
country farmers have rights confirmed
Press Release: High Country Accord
High country farmers are pleased with a High
Court decision that confirms their rights of exclusive possession
to their Crown Pastoral Leasehold properties. The judgement was
handed down by Justice Simon France in Wellington yesterday.
“It’s the right answer,” says
High Country Accord chairman Jonathan Wallis. “A pastoral
lease is alienated Crown land which provides farmers with absolute
title. It is similar in many respects to freehold title, distinguishing
it from its Australian counterpart.” |
| 14 May 2009 |
Fish
& Game's High Court action a disaster
Voxy
Federated Farmers has rightly labelled Fish &
Game New Zealand's ill-fated High Court challenge a disaster.
The challenge was a failed attempt to by-pass
all the work associated with walking access and it is a spiteful
and damaging waste of the fishing and hunting license fee money.
The High Court in Wellington yesterday dismissed Fish & Game's
challenge over the rights of South Island pastoral lease holders.
"This decision brings relief for affected
High Country farming families, as they now know Fish & Game
members won't be entitled to walk all over them," says Donald
Aubrey, Federated Farmers High Country chairman.
Both Federated Farmers and the High Country Accord
played an instrumental role in the formation and development of
the Walking Access Commission... |
| 26 Mar 2009 |
Pastoral
lessees go to court
Otago Daily Times
Pastoral lease farmers head to court today to
defend their right to exclusive occupancy of much of the South Island
high country.
If they lose the declaratory judgement hearing,
the public will gain unimpeded access to their lands, they say.
The case is being brought by New Zealand Fish
and Game Council... |
