Department of Tourism?

January 2017

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January 2017

Views of the countryside from the eastern Ruahines. Photo: Hazel Phillips
IT’S A TELLING comment, and one DOC should be heeding because if one person is saying it, you can bet more are: “It’s like DOC is the Department of Tourism in Fiordland, meanwhile the Ruahines are neglected.” Janet Wilson from the Palmerston North Tramping and Mountaineering Club said that to me when I talked to […]
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