Right to Roam does not exist in New Zealand.
There is an article in todays Dom Post which talks about a farmer locking the gate which allowed access to a beach through his land. It raises the point that many migrants may find unusual: you have no right here in New Zealand to wander across someone else’s land. In this guys case there is a legal access across his land – but that is not the route that people use. Instead they are making a mess of his land and not taking care of it. So he has locked the gate for the foreseeable future.
If you live somewhere like us in the Wairarapa, where a lot of the land is owned by farmers – just be aware that you cannot go traipsing all over it without permission. We are fortunate in that the land round here is owned by the guy who keeps his sheep in our paddock – so he has kindly said we can walk up on the hills behind the house.
This is just one of the many difference between two contries that many people think are so similar.
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One Comment on Right to Roam does not exist in New Zealand.
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Hubby on
Thu, 18th Jun 2009 9:59 pm
Interestingly also with no right of access to river banks anywhere you like, there isn’t a clear right of navigation alongside or down a river. After all you have to enter and leave the river somewhere.
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