Thread: Wanted : Clarification on grazing rights on DOC land

Originally Posted by whanahuia

Yeah they were. At the time, DOC had a couple of managers who, to be fair were quite combative when it came to dealing with the farming community and they did quite a bit of harm relationship wise. The guy that looked after the grazing concessions/leases, was a nice guy and if I had have only had to deal with him, I would have probably taken it up. But the other two seemed to think that because it was there it gave them an access and use right or excuse to my place. I felt that signing an agreement was putting my self at risk.
It got so bad, that I went from allowing doc to use my shearers quarters, too stipulating that they fly over my place rather than drive through, just so that there was no misinterpretation of what I would allow on my place.

yes they turned to shit just before I left - all done from Taupo without any local knowledge - the bee side of it was worse - they were just giving out bee concessions to put hives on DOC land based on a paper map exercise from Taupo - a lot of cases neighbouring famers did not know a damn thing until either truck turned up with hives or helicopter flew over with hives - where was your land I probably knew it