Declaring Land to be Held for Conservation Purposes as an Ecological Area
In the notice dated 26 June 2001, and published in the
New Zealand Gazette of 28 June 2001, No. 66 at page 1560, in the body of document for
"to protect a bird-rich sequence of podocarp forest on valley floors, hard beech forest on slopes and hardwood forest on ridges on Old Man Gravels"
read
"to protect the only area of podocarp-hardwood forest
on Waiuta Group rock (strongly indurated greywacke and argillite) in the North Westland Ecological region. It also protects a complete altitudinal sequence of vegetation within the Hochstetter Ecological District."
(File: DOC HK LMT 0045)