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| Thread ID: 94753 | 2008-11-11 04:24:00 | $40M Farm for Tramping...? | SolMiester (139) | PC World Chat |
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| 719392 | 2008-11-11 23:21:00 | Are dirt bikes allowed? Well er.... mountain bikes.. "Timpson said high impact recreation activities, involving hunting dogs, mountain bikes and helicopters, would be restricted until stock had been cleared." www.stuff.co.nz |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 719393 | 2008-11-11 23:29:00 | What an amazing waste of 40 million dollars. Surely they could have just ensured the new owners allowed access to the few dozen trampers a year who want to walk the area. Who cares what shape eyes or coloured skin any new owners would potentially have? |
Metla (12) | ||
| 719394 | 2008-11-11 23:40:00 | How is a helecopter high impact? oh no, it flattened two small strips of grass and scared the birds away... | wratterus (105) | ||
| 719395 | 2008-11-12 00:00:00 | Gary67 They bought the defunct unproductive ST James station, If it was defunct and unproductive surely it then has little value?? Terry Porrit “the money came mostly from the Nature Heritage Fund which is a contestable fund administered by DOC” Where did the Nature Heritage Fund get the money from? The tax payer?? Terry Porrit Small farms from less than 100 hectares up to a few hundred hectares selling for several million, $14,000,000, even up to $32,000,000 in the King Country. But this is of course “productive land that gives a “return” on capital expenditure John H Solmeister is also ignoring the tourist income from overseas punters using the St James Walkway (which is an extremely popular track) and the fact that DoC will get concession payments from tourist operators. OK. Lets be really generous and say 5000 people a year pay $100 each to walk the track = $500K per year. By my reckoning that it’s an 80 year payback without factoring in interest maintenance wages etc. Not really a good investment . NZ is a small country with a small population. We can’t keep pouring money and ongoing costs into ventures that in reality, give a negative return on capital. As the current world financial panic is showing, tourists stop coming to NZ and so these sort of schemes just become a burden to the tax payer. We are over endowered with National Parks and this just adds to the underused pack. HH |
Happy Harry (321) | ||
| 719396 | 2008-11-12 01:29:00 | If it had been called a Labour Park there would have been a few PF1'ers up in arms. ;) | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 719397 | 2008-11-12 04:57:00 | If it becomes a state park and NOT a national park dirt bikes will be allowed. If glory boy Key had bought it would you still all be moaning? It seems some people are never happy unless moaning about everything, they are almost up there with Australians who have just a lost at sport and light years ahead of the English :2cents: | gary67 (56) | ||
| 719398 | 2008-11-12 06:48:00 | 'You' can't put a monetary value on New Zealands Heritage, or perhaps we should sell off Mount Cook and surrounding National Park to Bill Gates or the Chinese ???? Parts of our main city centres could also have been classed as heritage, but that never stopped them being sold to the likes of the Chinese to whom you refer. Now what's left only a few decent old buildings, a bunch of derelict old eyesores. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
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