Tiri Action Group Letter to NZ Underwater
by Rex Smith
22 August 2003
NZ Underwater
PO Box 875
Mt Eden
AUCKLAND
Email: peter@nzunderwater.org.nz
Re: Failure to respond to budget and analysis request
Dear Peter
TAG has not received an acknowledgement or response from you regarding our letter dated July 4th 2003 (copy attached).
TAG is not only concerned at the delay in publishing the analysis of the submissions to the NZUA proposal, but has a number of additional questions we would like you to answer as follows -
- It was interesting to read comments attributed to you in the NZ Herald last week (15 August). Would you please explain the statement when referring to submissions, " around 85 per cent when measured in the way DoC does it".
- What process does this refer to?
- Could we please have a copy of the process that NZUA has employed to analyse the submissions?
- Who is doing the analysis of the submissions?
- What is their background in statistical analysis?
- What is their association with NZUA, DoC or Forest and Bird?
- When will the analysis of submissions be available for public comment?
- Will you please send TAG a copy of the analysis?
In the same NZ Herald article you are reported as saying there will be a second round of consultation with stakeholders. When is this round scheduled for? Who are these stakeholders? Will you be contacting TAG directly?
The Tiritiri Action Group has tried to maintain a level of professionalism when dealing with your organisation. You stressed on many occasions the delay in response to our requests was due to your part time status with NZUA. To read your comment about a "small, vocal" community in Whangaparaoa opposing your plan is insulting and an affront to those genuinely concerned about their access rights to the area. It was your organisation that encouraged the public at the meeting held at the Hibiscus Coast Boating Club to keep the issue local. To turn on this same community and call it small and vocal reflects poorly on NZUA.
To date the NZUA has chosen to ignore a significant proportion of the Whangaparaoa community and the wider public in their requests for more information.
Please acknowledge receipt of this letter and forward a copy of the complete budget for the Tiritiri Matangi marine reserve proposal together with the analysis of public submissions, as previously requested by TAG and agreed by you.
Yours faithfully
Rex Smith
TAG
Chairman
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