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Some descriptions at the hearing included “not fit for purpose”, “discriminatory”, “threatening” and “totally unreasonable”. Many felt that plans to tighten regulation around fundamental farm activities such as fencing, maintaining roads and clearing shrub would make farming difficult, bureaucratic and financially marginal.
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Three generations of Mt Nicholas Station managers, Kate Cocks, Linda Butson and Jess Cocks, 11, at an environment select committee submissions hearing on the Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill, in Queenstown. They see it as an attempt by the Crown to slowly reclaim the land, ignoring their years of custodianship and not recognising that the high country farmers are knowledgable and proud guardians.