DoC

What have we this morning?

Our friends at DoC, the minions answerable to Comrade Carter, are flexing their not inconsiderable muscle up on the Rodney Coast between Leigh and Omaha. Apparently there are seven baches right on the coast (although pictures of them make them appear more of the dimensions Clark Kent would use as a changing room) that have been there since WW2 when they were set up as accommodation for American servicemen (eh?). These abodes are on land that is a) a designated cemetary (gazetted in the 1890s) and b) on DoC land.

I put it to you that the amount of disruption these seven dwellingettes are causing to anything is approaching zero. The only way you can get to them is along the beach or across private land via a locked gate. Admitted by all is that they discharge no raw sewerage into the sea. Been there for sixty years, just leave them alone would be a sensible man's stance I suggest.

Oh no you don't. They have to go 'cos the rules (i.e. DoC's draconian powers under its charter or what ever it has) say so. DoC are asking Rodney Council how long this situation will be 'tolerated'. What are these people on? What good does moving these baches do for anyone except the DoC Jobsworths who presumably can put another notch in their clipboard and regain their bragging rights at the tofu and feta bar. DoC is an organisation out of control and has been allowed to become same by a succession of administrationis of varying flavours over the years. Having a particularly virulent strain of the Marxist government in Comrade Carter currently at the Department's helm gives no confidence that the siuation will be righted anytime soon.

A little background reading that some might find illuminating:

Scary report on the Department of Conservation

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