Ministry of Transport Files - Kirita Bay

These files from the Ministry of Transport deal mainly with the administrative aspects of structures, reclamations, power, telephone, and pipeline crossings of waterways around the marine foreshore and in navigable rivers and lakes. There is not a lot of environmental information in these files but occasionally there is a copy of a report that deals with the environmental aspects of a structure. In about 1964 the Ministry of Transport (MOT) took over the role of licensing structures on the foreshore from the Marine Department (MD) and employed the Ministry of Works and Development (MWD) as its environmental advisers. Reports from the MWD therefore contain much of the environmental information available in these files. Purpose: This dataset provides a brief discussion of coastal information contained within historical Ministry of Transport files, collected during a review commissioned by Environment Waikato as part of the Coastal Database project. The Ministry of Transport (MoT) was responsible for the administration of structures in the CMA and in navigable rivers and lakes from 1964 to 1997. These files are now held in Environment Waikato’s archives. These files contain useful information on the history and legal status of existing coastal structures.

54/44/855: Marine Farm, Jameson, north of Kirita Bay 1985. 54/44/873: Marine Farms, Western Fisheries Ltd., Between Matariki and Kirita Bays. This was the same as site file ref 54/44/855 and was not approved. 54/2/778: Reclamation Kirita Bay (1978) Stone Jetty built illegally. MWD Paeroa 7/1 Lands and Survey 11/168.

Kirita Bay and adjacent coast.

1960 to 1984.

Frequency of collection: Irregular/infrequent

Only includes information available on specific files. Important to note that Ministry of Works files contain further environmental information relating to these files.

Physical files. Some available as .pdf on request.

Historical information on previous conditions at these locations.

Freely available in EW archives. No confidentiality, publicly available.

Files closed. Include a note where this record continues after end date of file where possible – e.g. Dept of Conservation files.

These files have been continued where appropriate but have been amalgamated and given a new file number by DOC making sourcing more recent information difficult. Additional comments: Marine Farming The Marine Farming Act was passed in 1971 but it was only towards the end of the 1970s that marine farming began to be developed in the area around Coromandel Harbour. Early applications were met with strong resistance by Auckland boat users who thought that marine farms would interfere with their recreation along the Coromandel west coast, especially within Coromandel Harbour. As the development of marine farms became accepted there were fewer objections and the industry became well established. The Thames Coromandel District Council (TCDC) commissioned a study to determine sites suitable for marine farming. This report also indicated where marine farming should not take place and became the main planning document for further coastal development. All these files are related to Ministry of Works and Development files as the MWD was the adviser to MOT.