ACT Rural Affairs spokesman Gerry Eckhoff today labelled Labour’s record on rural issues as shameful, and predicted farmers would treat its rural policy with the contempt it deserved.

Jim Sutton still hasn’t grasped the fundamental issue regarding public access to private land, which is that every landowner must retain the right to say who may or may not enter their property, says ACT Rural Affairs spokesman Gerry Eckhoff.

Address to Federated Farmers National Conference; Tainui Novotel, Hamilton; 26 July 2005.

The decision to deny resource consent for a Coromandel sawmill, largely based on public use of a nearby marginal strip, justifies ACT’s stance against the imposition of such strips on private property, says ACT Rural Affairs spokesman Gerry Eckhoff. 

Gerry will be speaking about the threat to rural New Zealand’s security at the following public meetings next week. Come and have your say on protection of your land.

It’s not good enough that Labour has shelved its land grab, it must scrap it altogether, ACT Leader Rodney Hide and Rural Affairs spokesman Gerry Eckhoff said today.

Gerry will be talking on Rural Property Rights and the government's proposed legislation on the 'right to roam' Waikare Golf Course, Te Kauwhata
Monday, 4 July, at 7pm

Jim Sutton is now resorting to hollow threats to forward his stalled rural access policy, commonly known as ‘right to roam’ says ACT New Zealand Rural Affairs spokesman.

ACT Leader Rodney Hide said today that Don Brash was right to equate the protection of our freedom and democracy with the defence of private property rights. The three go hand in hand.