OIA 17-E-0578
5 February 2018
Lynn Middleton
Via email: [FYI request #7034 email]
Dear Lynn
Thank you for your Official Information Act request to the Department of Conservation,
dated 19 December 2017. You requested the following:
“Regarding the RMS Niagara, please provide internal departmental reports, papers and
presentations and submissions to Minister for Conservation; including advice, reports,
presentations and recommendations.”
Primary responsibility for management of marine Wrecks sits with the Minister of
Transport. While Department of Conservation staff have been monitoring the situation to
assess potential risks to marine and bird life, to date it has not been a subject for a great
deal of Ministerial advice. As a result of the memo below (item 1), the Minister is actively
liaising with the Associate Minister of Transport on this matter.
The following documents fall within the scope of your request and are attached:
Item Date
Document description
Decision
Item
Full date Name of document.
Released in full /
no.
of
If a series of emails refer to it as Released in part -
document emails on the topic
1
28
Departmental Memo to the Minister Released in part
November of Conservation
2017
2
16 June
Letter from Auckland Conservation
Released in full
2017
Board to Minister of Conservation
3
17 July
Letter from Minister of Transport to Released in full
2017
Auckland Conservation Board
I have decided to release the relevant parts of the documents listed above, subject to
information being withheld under one or more of the following sections of the Official
Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai
DOC-5408565
Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland Office
Private Bag 68908, Newton, Auckland 1145
www.doc.govt.nz
Information Act, as applicable:
• personal contact details of officials, under section 9(2)(a) – to protect the privacy
of natural persons, including deceased people,
In making my decision, I have considered the public interest considerations in section
9(1) of the Official Information Act.
You are entitled to seek an investigation and review of my decision by writing to an
Ombudsman as provided by section 28(3) of the Official Information Act.
Kind regards
Andrew Baucke
Director Operations, Auckland
Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai
DOC-5408565
Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland Office
Private Bag 68908, Newton, Auckland 1145
www.doc.govt.nz