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Establishment
The Egmont National Park Board was established on 20 October 1900 under section 2 of the Egmont National Park Act 1900. Egmont National Park was also established under the Act, the land making up the Park originally described as:
ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 72,382 acres, more or less, being the land comprised within a circle having a radius of six miles, and a centre on the summit of Mount Egmont. Also all that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,040 acres, more or less, being Sections Nos. 18 and 19, Block V., Egmont Survey District; Section No. 15, Block VII., Cape Survey District; and Section No. 14, Block XL, Cape Survey District. Also all that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 5,500 acres, more or less, being parts of Sections Nos. 169 and 170, Patua Block, Okura District (Cape Survey District). Bounded towards the north generally by Section No. 30, Block n., Wairau Survey District, Section No. 49, Block III, Cape Survey District, a road-line, and Sections Nos. 153, 60, 65, 67, 154, and 155, Block Ill. aforesaid; towards the east generally by the Surrey Hill Road; towards the south-east by a right line bearing south 50° 51' west from the Surrey Hill Road to the Timaru Stream; and towards the west generally by the Timaru Stream, Sections Nos. 107, 108, and 109, Block n., Cape Survey District, Sections Nos. 110, 111, 112, 100, 99, 98, and 95, Block IlL, Sections Nos. 93, 91, and 90, Block H., Cape Survey District, Section No. 15, a road-line, Sections Nos. 16, 17, 18, and 19, suburbs of Ahuahu, a road-line, Sections' Nos. 26, 27, a road-line, and 28, Block HI. aforesaid, and Section No. 29, Block H., Wairau Survey District, to Section No. 30 aforesaid.1
The first Governor-appointed members of the Board were Stephenson Percy Smith, and Richard Dingle.2
Functions and Responsibilities
1900-1953
Between October 1900, and the 31 March 1953, the functions and responsibilities of the Egmont National Park Board were set out in the Egmont National Part Act 1900 (which included provisions set out under the Public Domains Act 1881) and the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928.
1953-1981
From 1 April 1953, the functions of the Egmont National Park Board were to administer, manage, and control the Egmont National Park in accordance with the National Parks Act 1952. Subject to the general policy and direction of the National Parks Authority (NPA), the Board was required administer the Park in such a manner as to secure to the public the fullest proper use and enjoyment of the Park consistent with the preservation of its natural features and the protection and wellbeing of its native flora and fauna.
It was also the function of the Board to administer, manage, and control, subject to the general policy and direction of the National Parks Authority:
- Freehold or leasehold property situated outside the Park and vested in the Board; and
- Other property, whether within or outside the Park, vested in the Board in such manner and for such purposes that afforded and secured to the public the fullest proper use and enjoyment of the Egmont National Park.
The Board had the power to:
- With the prior consent of the National Parks Authority, from time to time set apart any part of the Egmont National Park for any specified purpose of public amusement or recreation, and permit the use thereof upon such terms and conditions as it thought fit, and revoke any such setting apart;
- With the prior consent of the Authority, from time to time set apart any part of the Park as a site for the purpose of establishing thereon by any person or department of State a station for the transmission, emission, or reception of any form of radio-electric communication (including the wireless transmission of writing, signs, signals, pictures, images, and sounds of all kinds by means of Hertzian waves), and permit the use thereof upon such terms and conditions as it thought fit, and revoke any such setting apart;
- Prohibit any persons from carrying on any trade, business, or occupation within the Park unless licensed by the Board, and fix fees to be paid in respect of those licences;
- Appropriate and use any portion of the Park as sites for residences of the park rangers or other officers or servants of the Board;
- With the prior consent of the Authority, appropriate any area of the Park and permit the use thereof by any park ranger or other officer or servant of the Board residing in the Park for the grazing of any horses or household animals required by them in the exercise of their official duties or otherwise: Provided that no such area was used unless it is was first securely fenced so as to prevent any animal from wandering into any other portion of the Park;
- Erect or authorise the erection of huts for the use of officers of any Department of State or other persons engaged under lawful authority in the destruction or eradication of introduced flora and fauna in the Park, or the protection of forests in or adjacent to the Park;
- Erect or authorise the erection by any mountaineering, winter sports, or tramping club, or by any other association, society, or body approved by the Authority, of huts on the Park, on such terms as to plans, size, materials, situation, custody, use, and otherwise as the Board determined;
- Erect or authorise any person or any body of persons (whether incorporated or not) to erect in the Park ski tows or other apparatus or works designed to facilitate tourist traffic or the enjoyment of skiing and other winter sports, on such terms and conditions in all respects as the Board determined;
- Make, stop up, divert, widen, or alter any bridges, ways, or watercourses in, upon, through, across, or over any part of the Park, subject to the payment of compensation for damage thereby to adjacent lands: Provided that any such power in relation to watercourses shall be exercised subject to the provisions of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941;
- With the prior consent of the Authority, appropriate any part of the Park for camping sites or for parking places for vehicles for the convenience of persons using or visiting the Park, and prohibit camping or the parking of vehicles on any part of the Park not so appropriated;
- Do any other thing that may be requisite for the proper and beneficial management, administration, and control of the Park or any part thereof.
In the exercise of its powers the Board was authorised to use or permit the use of stone, gravel, or similar substances found on the Park in the erection of and the provision of access to any buildings constructed under its powers.
Where the Board had provided any community service, benefit, or facility, whether within or outside the Park, for the benefit of members of the public using the Park, it could, with the approval of the NPA, assess the amount of the contribution to be paid to the Board by the lessees and licensees under leases and licences granted by the Board towards the cost of providing and maintaining that service, benefit, or facility.
In carrying out its functions under the Act, the Board was empowered to exercise outside the boundaries of the Park all or any of the following powers:
- With the prior consent of the Authority, provide amenities and facilities for the use of the public or for any ranger or for any officer or servant of the Board or for any administrative purposes of the Park;
- With the prior consent of the Authority, purchase, take on lease, or otherwise acquire any real or personal property or any rights or privileges (being real or personal property, rights, or privileges that the Board considered necessary for any purposes of the Park) , and erect, maintain, improve, or alter any buildings, premises, or works as the Board considered necessary;
- With the prior consent of the Authority, sell, lease, exchange, charge, or otherwise deal with any property that was acquired.
The Board was required to at all times have full regard to the preservation of the natural features and scenic beauty of the Park when exercising its powers.
Except with the permission with the National Parks Authority, the Board was not permitted to destroy or authorise any person to cut or destroy any native bush in the Park.
Tourist Accommodation
With respect to providing accommodation for tourists, the Board, with the prior consent of the NPA, was authorised to:
- Establish or provide camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation houses, and other buildings, conveniences, and facilities in the Egmont National Park;
- Let or lease any such camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation houses, and other buildings, conveniences, and facilities to such persons, at such rental, and on such terms and conditions as the Board, with the approval of the Authority, determined;
- Itself control, carry on, or conduct any such camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation houses, and other buildings, conveniences, and facilities;
- Assist in the establishment or provision by any other person or body of persons (whether incorporated or not) of camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation houses, and other buildings, conveniences, and facilities in the Park;
- Establish and maintain recreation grounds within such parts of the Park as it from time to time decided;
- Make such charges as it from time to time decided for the use of any such camping grounds, huts, other buildings, conveniences, facilities, or recreation grounds.
For the purpose of facilitating the provision of camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation houses, or other buildings or conveniences by other persons or bodies of persons (whether incorporated or not), the Board on behalf of the Crown could, with the consent of the NPA and subject to such terms, conditions, and rental (nominal or otherwise) as the NPA approved, grant leases or licences of land within the Park as sites for any such camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation.
Leasing Areas within the Park
With the prior consent of the NPA, the Board was permitted to set apart land or parts of land as leasing areas within the Park. The Board could, on such terms and conditions as the Authority approved, grant licences for grazing purposes or leases of the whole or part of any leasing area and accept (with the approval of the Authority) surrenders of any such licences or leases (subject to the provisions of the Land Act 1948).
This was only where land that formed part of the Park was farming land that in the public interest could continue to be farmed, or was native grass land that could be utilised for grazing purposes without detriment to the land itself or the remainder of the Park.
Granting of Easements
The Board could also, with the prior consent of the NPA and on such conditions that the Authority approved, grant rights of way or other easements over any part of the Park, for any public purpose, or for the purpose of providing:
- access to any area included in any lease or licence granted by the Board under the Act;
- for the utilisation of water power for the generation and transmission of electric current for heating, lighting, or power purposes;
- for the provision of high pressure water systems;
- for the development or use of the Egmont National Park, or any part of the Park as a tourist or public resort;
- for the purpose of providing or facilitating access or the supply of water to land not forming part of the Park if that access or water supply could be given or provided without adversely affecting the Park in any way.
Wilderness Areas
With the consent of the NPA, the Egmont National Park Board was authorised to set apart any area of the Egmont National Park as a wilderness area. It could also revoke any such consent to set apart.
Any area that was set apart as a wilderness area:
- was required to be kept and maintained in a state of nature;
- no buildings of any description or ski tows or other apparatus were to be erected or constructed on the area; The Board could, however, with the prior consent of the NPA, erect or authorise the erection of huts for the use of officers of any Department of State or other persons engaged under lawful authority in the destruction or eradication of introduced flora and fauna in the Park;
- no horses or other animals or vehicles of any description were allowed to be taken onto or used on the area;
- no roads, tracks, or trails could not be constructed on the area except such foot tracks for the use of persons entering the area on foot as the Board deemed necessary or desirable.
Structure
1900-1924 (under the Egmont National Park Act 1990)
On establishment, the Egmont National Park Board consisted of 10 members:
- the Commission of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District (who was also Chair of the Board);
- two members who were appointed by the Governor (from 1917, the Governor-General);
- one member by each of the following local authorities - the Hawera Borough Council, the New Plymouth Borough Council, Taranaki County Council, the Hawera County Council, the Stratford County Council, the Stratford Borough Council, and the Opunake Town Board.
Two addition members were added to the Board in 1914 pursuant to section 128 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1913 - the Egmont County Council and the Eltham Borough Council were entitled to appoint one member.
A Secretary was appointed by the Board to provide administrative support.
For the effective management and control of the Park, the Board was authorised to appoint Rangers.
For better local control and management of the Park the Board was authorised to delegate all or any of its powers (other than the power to make by-laws, or powers as a leasing body) to up to four committees of management:
- Each committee consisted of between four and seven members, all of whom were appointed by the Board, and who were subject to the right of the Board to remove them or any of them at any time and appoint successors;
- Each committee exercised its delegated powers within such a portion of the park as was specified by the Board, and for that purpose the Board could divide the said park into no more than four divisions, and assign a division to each committee;
- In the exercise of its delegated powers each committee was subject to the control of the Board.
1924-1953 (under the Egmont National Park Act 1924)
The Board was reconstituted on 1 January 1925, and consisted of the following persons:
- The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District (chair);
- Two persons who were appointed by the North Egmont Local Committee;
- Two persons who were appointed by the South Egmont Local Committee;
- Two persons who were appointed by the East Egmont Local Committee;
- One person who was appointed by the West Egmont Local Committee; and
- Two persons who were appointed by the Governor-General.
The Board had the authority to appoint a Warden of the park, a Secretary and Treasury, and rangers and officers as it deemed necessary.
For the better local control and management of the park, four local committees of management were constituted:
- The North Egmont Local Committee (appointing local authorities were: Taranaki County Council, New Plymouth Borough Council, Clifton County Council, and Waitara Borough Council);
- The East Egmont Local Committee (Inglewood Borough Council, Inglewood County Council, Stratford Borough Council, Stratford County Council, Whangamomona County Council);
- The South Egmont Local Committee (Eltham Borough Council, Eltham County Council, Hawera Borough Council, Hawera County Council, Waimate West County Council, Kaponga Town Board, Manaia Town Board);
- The West Egmont Local Committee (Opunake Town Board, Egmont County Council).
Each of the committees consisted of two members, who were appointed in the month of February in each year by the appointing local authorities. The Board could delegate all or any of its powers (other than the power to make by-laws, or powers as a leasing body) to the committees. Each committee exercised its delegated powers within such a portion of the park as was specified by the Board, and for that purpose the Board could divide the park into no more than four divisions, and assign a division to each committee. In the exercise of its delegated powers each committee was subject to the control of the Board.
In December 1933, membership of the West Egmont Local Committee was increased to two, pursuant to the Egmont National Park Amendment Act 1933.
1953-1978 (under the National Parks Act 1952)
The Board was reconstituted again on 1 April 1953:
- The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District (chair);
- One person who was appointed by the North Egmont Local Committee;
- One person who was appointed by the South Egmont Local Committee;
- One person who was appointed by the East Egmont Local Committee;
- One person who was appointed by the West Egmont Local Committee;
- One person appointed by the Minister of Lands on the the recommendation of the Dominion Executive of the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand Incorporated;
- One person appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the Taranaki Local Bodies Association;
- Two members appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the National Parks Authority.
The Board had the authority to appoint a secretary and a treasurer, who were
For the better local control and management of the park, four local committees of management were constituted:
- The North Egmont Local Committee (appointing local authorities were: Clifton County Council, Inglewood Borough Council, Inglewood County Council, New Plymouth City Council, Taranaki County Council, Waitara CountyCouncil);
- The South Egmont Local Committee (Eltham Borough Council, Eltham County Council, Hawera Borough Council, Hawera County Council, Kaponga Town Board, Manaia Town Board, Waimate West County Council);
- The East Egmont Local Committee (Stratford Borough Council, Stratford County Council, Whangamomona County Council);
- The West Egmont Local Committee (Egmont County Council, Opunake Borough Council).
Each of the committees consisted of two members, who were appointed in the month of February in each year by the appointing local authorities. The Board could delegate all or any of its powers (other than the power to make by-laws, or powers as a leasing body) to the committees, with the approval of the National Parks Authority. Each committee exercised its delegated powers within such a portion of the park as was specified by the Board, and for that purpose the Board could divide the park into no more than four divisions, and assign a division to each committee. In the exercise of its delegated powers each committee was subject to the control of the Board.
1978-1981 (National Parks Amendment Act 1977)
On 1 April 1978, the Board was restructured to consist of:
- the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District;
- two persons appointed by the Minister of Lands on the recommendation of the Taranaki Local Bodies Association;
- one person appointed by the Minister on the joint recommendation of the Dominion Executive of the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand Incorporated and the New Zealand Ski Association Incorporated;
- one person appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the Taranaki Maori Trust Board; and
- five members appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the National Parks Authority.
Disestablishment
The Egmont National Park Board was disestablished on 1 April 1981, pursuant to section 72(1) of the National Parks Act 1981. Responsibility for the management of the Egmont National Park was taken over by the Taranaki National Parks and Reserves Board.
Footnotes:
- Schedule, Egmont National Park Act 1900 - New Zealand Legal Information Institute, http://www.nzlii.org/nz/legis/hist_act/enpa190064v1900n59286/ (accessed 26 August 2015).
- p.2154, New Zealand Gazette, 29 November 1900, No.98.
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Establishment
The Egmont National Park Board was established on 20 October 1900 under section 2 of the Egmont National Park Act 1900. Egmont National Park was also established under the Act, the land making up the Park originally described as:
ALL that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 72,382 acres, more or less, being the land comprised within a circle having a radius of six miles, and a centre on the summit of Mount Egmont. Also all that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 1,040 acres, more or less, being Sections Nos. 18 and 19, Block V., Egmont Survey District; Section No. 15, Block VII., Cape Survey District; and Section No. 14, Block XL, Cape Survey District. Also all that area in the Taranaki Land District, containing by admeasurement 5,500 acres, more or less, being parts of Sections Nos. 169 and 170, Patua Block, Okura District (Cape Survey District). Bounded towards the north generally by Section No. 30, Block n., Wairau Survey District, Section No. 49, Block III, Cape Survey District, a road-line, and Sections Nos. 153, 60, 65, 67, 154, and 155, Block Ill. aforesaid; towards the east generally by the Surrey Hill Road; towards the south-east by a right line bearing south 50° 51' west from the Surrey Hill Road to the Timaru Stream; and towards the west generally by the Timaru Stream, Sections Nos. 107, 108, and 109, Block n., Cape Survey District, Sections Nos. 110, 111, 112, 100, 99, 98, and 95, Block IlL, Sections Nos. 93, 91, and 90, Block H., Cape Survey District, Section No. 15, a road-line, Sections Nos. 16, 17, 18, and 19, suburbs of Ahuahu, a road-line, Sections' Nos. 26, 27, a road-line, and 28, Block HI. aforesaid, and Section No. 29, Block H., Wairau Survey District, to Section No. 30 aforesaid.1
The first Governor-appointed members of the Board were Stephenson Percy Smith, and Richard Dingle.2
Functions and Responsibilities
1900-1953
Between October 1900, and the 31 March 1953, the functions and responsibilities of the Egmont National Park Board were set out in the Egmont National Part Act 1900 (which included provisions set out under the Public Domains Act 1881) and the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928.
1953-1981
From 1 April 1953, the functions of the Egmont National Park Board were to administer, manage, and control the Egmont National Park in accordance with the National Parks Act 1952. Subject to the general policy and direction of the National Parks Authority (NPA), the Board was required administer the Park in such a manner as to secure to the public the fullest proper use and enjoyment of the Park consistent with the preservation of its natural features and the protection and wellbeing of its native flora and fauna.
It was also the function of the Board to administer, manage, and control, subject to the general policy and direction of the National Parks Authority:
- Freehold or leasehold property situated outside the Park and vested in the Board; and
- Other property, whether within or outside the Park, vested in the Board in such manner and for such purposes that afforded and secured to the public the fullest proper use and enjoyment of the Egmont National Park.
The Board had the power to:
- With the prior consent of the National Parks Authority, from time to time set apart any part of the Egmont National Park for any specified purpose of public amusement or recreation, and permit the use thereof upon such terms and conditions as it thought fit, and revoke any such setting apart;
- With the prior consent of the Authority, from time to time set apart any part of the Park as a site for the purpose of establishing thereon by any person or department of State a station for the transmission, emission, or reception of any form of radio-electric communication (including the wireless transmission of writing, signs, signals, pictures, images, and sounds of all kinds by means of Hertzian waves), and permit the use thereof upon such terms and conditions as it thought fit, and revoke any such setting apart;
- Prohibit any persons from carrying on any trade, business, or occupation within the Park unless licensed by the Board, and fix fees to be paid in respect of those licences;
- Appropriate and use any portion of the Park as sites for residences of the park rangers or other officers or servants of the Board;
- With the prior consent of the Authority, appropriate any area of the Park and permit the use thereof by any park ranger or other officer or servant of the Board residing in the Park for the grazing of any horses or household animals required by them in the exercise of their official duties or otherwise: Provided that no such area was used unless it is was first securely fenced so as to prevent any animal from wandering into any other portion of the Park;
- Erect or authorise the erection of huts for the use of officers of any Department of State or other persons engaged under lawful authority in the destruction or eradication of introduced flora and fauna in the Park, or the protection of forests in or adjacent to the Park;
- Erect or authorise the erection by any mountaineering, winter sports, or tramping club, or by any other association, society, or body approved by the Authority, of huts on the Park, on such terms as to plans, size, materials, situation, custody, use, and otherwise as the Board determined;
- Erect or authorise any person or any body of persons (whether incorporated or not) to erect in the Park ski tows or other apparatus or works designed to facilitate tourist traffic or the enjoyment of skiing and other winter sports, on such terms and conditions in all respects as the Board determined;
- Make, stop up, divert, widen, or alter any bridges, ways, or watercourses in, upon, through, across, or over any part of the Park, subject to the payment of compensation for damage thereby to adjacent lands: Provided that any such power in relation to watercourses shall be exercised subject to the provisions of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941;
- With the prior consent of the Authority, appropriate any part of the Park for camping sites or for parking places for vehicles for the convenience of persons using or visiting the Park, and prohibit camping or the parking of vehicles on any part of the Park not so appropriated;
- Do any other thing that may be requisite for the proper and beneficial management, administration, and control of the Park or any part thereof.
In the exercise of its powers the Board was authorised to use or permit the use of stone, gravel, or similar substances found on the Park in the erection of and the provision of access to any buildings constructed under its powers.
Where the Board had provided any community service, benefit, or facility, whether within or outside the Park, for the benefit of members of the public using the Park, it could, with the approval of the NPA, assess the amount of the contribution to be paid to the Board by the lessees and licensees under leases and licences granted by the Board towards the cost of providing and maintaining that service, benefit, or facility.
In carrying out its functions under the Act, the Board was empowered to exercise outside the boundaries of the Park all or any of the following powers:
- With the prior consent of the Authority, provide amenities and facilities for the use of the public or for any ranger or for any officer or servant of the Board or for any administrative purposes of the Park;
- With the prior consent of the Authority, purchase, take on lease, or otherwise acquire any real or personal property or any rights or privileges (being real or personal property, rights, or privileges that the Board considered necessary for any purposes of the Park) , and erect, maintain, improve, or alter any buildings, premises, or works as the Board considered necessary;
- With the prior consent of the Authority, sell, lease, exchange, charge, or otherwise deal with any property that was acquired.
The Board was required to at all times have full regard to the preservation of the natural features and scenic beauty of the Park when exercising its powers.
Except with the permission with the National Parks Authority, the Board was not permitted to destroy or authorise any person to cut or destroy any native bush in the Park.
Tourist Accommodation
With respect to providing accommodation for tourists, the Board, with the prior consent of the NPA, was authorised to:
- Establish or provide camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation houses, and other buildings, conveniences, and facilities in the Egmont National Park;
- Let or lease any such camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation houses, and other buildings, conveniences, and facilities to such persons, at such rental, and on such terms and conditions as the Board, with the approval of the Authority, determined;
- Itself control, carry on, or conduct any such camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation houses, and other buildings, conveniences, and facilities;
- Assist in the establishment or provision by any other person or body of persons (whether incorporated or not) of camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation houses, and other buildings, conveniences, and facilities in the Park;
- Establish and maintain recreation grounds within such parts of the Park as it from time to time decided;
- Make such charges as it from time to time decided for the use of any such camping grounds, huts, other buildings, conveniences, facilities, or recreation grounds.
For the purpose of facilitating the provision of camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation houses, or other buildings or conveniences by other persons or bodies of persons (whether incorporated or not), the Board on behalf of the Crown could, with the consent of the NPA and subject to such terms, conditions, and rental (nominal or otherwise) as the NPA approved, grant leases or licences of land within the Park as sites for any such camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation.
Leasing Areas within the Park
With the prior consent of the NPA, the Board was permitted to set apart land or parts of land as leasing areas within the Park. The Board could, on such terms and conditions as the Authority approved, grant licences for grazing purposes or leases of the whole or part of any leasing area and accept (with the approval of the Authority) surrenders of any such licences or leases (subject to the provisions of the Land Act 1948).
This was only where land that formed part of the Park was farming land that in the public interest could continue to be farmed, or was native grass land that could be utilised for grazing purposes without detriment to the land itself or the remainder of the Park.
Granting of Easements
The Board could also, with the prior consent of the NPA and on such conditions that the Authority approved, grant rights of way or other easements over any part of the Park, for any public purpose, or for the purpose of providing:
- access to any area included in any lease or licence granted by the Board under the Act;
- for the utilisation of water power for the generation and transmission of electric current for heating, lighting, or power purposes;
- for the provision of high pressure water systems;
- for the development or use of the Egmont National Park, or any part of the Park as a tourist or public resort;
- for the purpose of providing or facilitating access or the supply of water to land not forming part of the Park if that access or water supply could be given or provided without adversely affecting the Park in any way.
Wilderness Areas
With the consent of the NPA, the Egmont National Park Board was authorised to set apart any area of the Egmont National Park as a wilderness area. It could also revoke any such consent to set apart.
Any area that was set apart as a wilderness area:
- was required to be kept and maintained in a state of nature;
- no buildings of any description or ski tows or other apparatus were to be erected or constructed on the area; The Board could, however, with the prior consent of the NPA, erect or authorise the erection of huts for the use of officers of any Department of State or other persons engaged under lawful authority in the destruction or eradication of introduced flora and fauna in the Park;
- no horses or other animals or vehicles of any description were allowed to be taken onto or used on the area;
- no roads, tracks, or trails could not be constructed on the area except such foot tracks for the use of persons entering the area on foot as the Board deemed necessary or desirable.
Structure
1900-1924 (under the Egmont National Park Act 1990)
On establishment, the Egmont National Park Board consisted of 10 members:
- the Commission of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District (who was also Chair of the Board);
- two members who were appointed by the Governor (from 1917, the Governor-General);
- one member by each of the following local authorities - the Hawera Borough Council, the New Plymouth Borough Council, Taranaki County Council, the Hawera County Council, the Stratford County Council, the Stratford Borough Council, and the Opunake Town Board.
Two addition members were added to the Board in 1914 pursuant to section 128 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1913 - the Egmont County Council and the Eltham Borough Council were entitled to appoint one member.
A Secretary was appointed by the Board to provide administrative support.
For the effective management and control of the Park, the Board was authorised to appoint Rangers.
For better local control and management of the Park the Board was authorised to delegate all or any of its powers (other than the power to make by-laws, or powers as a leasing body) to up to four committees of management:
- Each committee consisted of between four and seven members, all of whom were appointed by the Board, and who were subject to the right of the Board to remove them or any of them at any time and appoint successors;
- Each committee exercised its delegated powers within such a portion of the park as was specified by the Board, and for that purpose the Board could divide the said park into no more than four divisions, and assign a division to each committee;
- In the exercise of its delegated powers each committee was subject to the control of the Board.
1924-1953 (under the Egmont National Park Act 1924)
The Board was reconstituted on 1 January 1925, and consisted of the following persons:
- The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District (chair);
- Two persons who were appointed by the North Egmont Local Committee;
- Two persons who were appointed by the South Egmont Local Committee;
- Two persons who were appointed by the East Egmont Local Committee;
- One person who was appointed by the West Egmont Local Committee; and
- Two persons who were appointed by the Governor-General.
The Board had the authority to appoint a Warden of the park, a Secretary and Treasury, and rangers and officers as it deemed necessary.
For the better local control and management of the park, four local committees of management were constituted:
- The North Egmont Local Committee (appointing local authorities were: Taranaki County Council, New Plymouth Borough Council, Clifton County Council, and Waitara Borough Council);
- The East Egmont Local Committee (Inglewood Borough Council, Inglewood County Council, Stratford Borough Council, Stratford County Council, Whangamomona County Council);
- The South Egmont Local Committee (Eltham Borough Council, Eltham County Council, Hawera Borough Council, Hawera County Council, Waimate West County Council, Kaponga Town Board, Manaia Town Board);
- The West Egmont Local Committee (Opunake Town Board, Egmont County Council).
Each of the committees consisted of two members, who were appointed in the month of February in each year by the appointing local authorities. The Board could delegate all or any of its powers (other than the power to make by-laws, or powers as a leasing body) to the committees. Each committee exercised its delegated powers within such a portion of the park as was specified by the Board, and for that purpose the Board could divide the park into no more than four divisions, and assign a division to each committee. In the exercise of its delegated powers each committee was subject to the control of the Board.
In December 1933, membership of the West Egmont Local Committee was increased to two, pursuant to the Egmont National Park Amendment Act 1933.
1953-1978 (under the National Parks Act 1952)
The Board was reconstituted again on 1 April 1953:
- The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District (chair);
- One person who was appointed by the North Egmont Local Committee;
- One person who was appointed by the South Egmont Local Committee;
- One person who was appointed by the East Egmont Local Committee;
- One person who was appointed by the West Egmont Local Committee;
- One person appointed by the Minister of Lands on the the recommendation of the Dominion Executive of the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand Incorporated;
- One person appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the Taranaki Local Bodies Association;
- Two members appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the National Parks Authority.
The Board had the authority to appoint a secretary and a treasurer, who were
For the better local control and management of the park, four local committees of management were constituted:
- The North Egmont Local Committee (appointing local authorities were: Clifton County Council, Inglewood Borough Council, Inglewood County Council, New Plymouth City Council, Taranaki County Council, Waitara CountyCouncil);
- The South Egmont Local Committee (Eltham Borough Council, Eltham County Council, Hawera Borough Council, Hawera County Council, Kaponga Town Board, Manaia Town Board, Waimate West County Council);
- The East Egmont Local Committee (Stratford Borough Council, Stratford County Council, Whangamomona County Council);
- The West Egmont Local Committee (Egmont County Council, Opunake Borough Council).
Each of the committees consisted of two members, who were appointed in the month of February in each year by the appointing local authorities. The Board could delegate all or any of its powers (other than the power to make by-laws, or powers as a leasing body) to the committees, with the approval of the National Parks Authority. Each committee exercised its delegated powers within such a portion of the park as was specified by the Board, and for that purpose the Board could divide the park into no more than four divisions, and assign a division to each committee. In the exercise of its delegated powers each committee was subject to the control of the Board.
1978-1981 (National Parks Amendment Act 1977)
On 1 April 1978, the Board was restructured to consist of:
- the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Taranaki Land District;
- two persons appointed by the Minister of Lands on the recommendation of the Taranaki Local Bodies Association;
- one person appointed by the Minister on the joint recommendation of the Dominion Executive of the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand Incorporated and the New Zealand Ski Association Incorporated;
- one person appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the Taranaki Maori Trust Board; and
- five members appointed by the Minister on the recommendation of the National Parks Authority.
Disestablishment
The Egmont National Park Board was disestablished on 1 April 1981, pursuant to section 72(1) of the National Parks Act 1981. Responsibility for the management of the Egmont National Park was taken over by the Taranaki National Parks and Reserves Board.
Footnotes:
- Schedule, Egmont National Park Act 1900 - New Zealand Legal Information Institute, http://www.nzlii.org/nz/legis/hist_act/enpa190064v1900n59286/ (accessed 26 August 2015).
- p.2154, New Zealand Gazette, 29 November 1900, No.98.
The establishment date of the Egmont National Park Board is based on the date the Egmont National Park Act 1900 received Royal Assent, 20 October 1900.
- New Zealand Legal Information Institute, http://www.nzlii.org/ (accessed 26 August 2015).
- New Zealand Gazette 1900, Volume II, Government Printer, Wellington, 1900.
- National Parks Amendment Act 1972
- National Parks Amendment Act 1971
- National Parks Amendment Act 1974
- Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941
- National Parks Amendment Act 1973
- National Parks Amendment Act 1976
- National Parks Amendment Act 1964
- National Parks Amendment Act 1956
- National Parks Amendment Act 1967
- National Parks Amendment Act 1977
- National Parks Act 1952
- Egmont National Park Act 1924
- Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1913
- Egmont National Park Act 1901
- National Parks Amendment Act 1970
- Public Bodies Powers Act 1887
- Egmont National Park Amendment Act 1933
- Public Domains Act 1881
- Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908
- National Parks Amendment Act 1958
- National Parks Amendment Act 1968
- Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928
- Egmont National Park Amendment Act 1927
- Public Revenues Act 1892
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