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	The establishment date of the Arthur’s Pass National Park Board is based on the date the Minister of Lands appointed a board of control, 16 September 1929 (p.2490, New Zealand Gazette, 19 September 1929, No.63).

	Original minute books for Arthur's Pass National Park Board 1929-56 in CH 143.
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		New Zealand Legal Information Institute, http://www.nzlii.org/ (accessed 17 September 2015).
	

		Papers Past (National Library of New Zealand), http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/ (accessed 17 September 2015).
	

		New Zealand Gazette 1929, Volume II, Government Printer, Wellington, 1929.
	

		New Zealand Gazette 1929, Volume III, Government Printer, Wellington, 1929.

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	Establishment

	The Arthur’s Pass National Park Board was established on 16 September 1929 as the Arthur Pass National Park Board, pursuant to an Order in Council issued by the Governor-General under section 73 of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928.1 Arthur’s Pass National Park was established as Arthur Pass National Park on 29 July 1929.2

	The first Board members were:

	

		Hon. Sir Robert Heaton Rhodes, KCVO, KBE, MLC;
	

		Arthur Dudley Dobson;
	

		Frederick Willie Freeman;
	

		George Harper, OBE;
	

		Walter Kenneth McAlpine;
	

		William McKay;
	

		Robert Speigh;
	

		Ebenezer Teichelmann;
	

		Roy Twyneham;
	

		The Mayor of Christchurch (ex-officio);
	

		The Mayor of Greymouth (ex-officio);
	

		The Conservator of Forests for the Westland Forest Conservation Region (ex-officio); and
	

		The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Canterbury Land District.3


	When the Park and the Board established, the New Zealand Geographic Board recommended that it be named “Arthur” instead of “Arthur’s”.4

	Functions and Responsibilities

	1929-1953

	Between September 1929 and 31 March 1953, the functions and responsibilities of the Arhtur’s Park National Park Board were set out in the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act 1928.

	1953-1981

	From 1 April 1953, the functions of the Arthur's Pass 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 Arthur's Pass 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 Arthur's Pass 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 Arthur's Pass 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

	The Arthur’s Pass National Park Board consisted of:

	

		The Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Land District in which the Park or the greater part of the Park was situated (who was also the Chairperson);
	

		Not more than eight other persons, who were appointed by the Minister of Lands on the recommendation of the National Parks Authority.


	In any case where, because of the nature of the Park the Authority considered it desirable that mountain climbers and skiers should have representation on the Board, the National Parks Authority was required to ensure that of the persons recommended for appointment to the Board one be a person nominated jointly by the Dominion Executive of the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand Incorporated, and by the New Zealand Ski Association Incorporated.

	Where any land that formed part of the Park was administered by the Tourist Hotel Corporation of New Zealand (as set out under the Tourist Hotel Corporation Act 1955) or the control of any tourist hotel on land in or adjacent to the Park was vested in that Corporation, an additional member of the Board was appointed by the Minister of Lands on the recommendation of the Minister of Tourism.

	Board members were appointed to terms of 3 years, and were eligible for reappointment.

	The Board was empowered to appoint committees to assist it with its work. Such committees could consist entirely of board members, or partly of board members and partly non-board members, or entirely non-board members.

	Disestablishment

	The Arthur’s Pass 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 Arthur’s Pass National Park was taken over by the North Canterbury National Parks and Reserves Board.

	Footnotes:

	

		Arthur Pass National Park – Board of Control Appointed, p.2490, New Zealand Gazette, 19 September 1929, No.63.
	

		Land in the Canterbury and Westland Land Districts declared to be a National Park, p.1932, New Zealand Gazette, 1 August 1929, No.53.
	

		p.2490, New Zealand Gazette, No.63.
	

		Arthur or Arthur’s? – Much in a Name – How the Pass was Christened, p.10, The Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19743, 7 October 1929 – Papers Past website (National Library of New Zealand), http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=CHP19291007.1.10&e=-------10--1----0-- (accessed 17 September 2015).

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