Govt spends $2.5m on high country land From: The Press | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: SCOTT, Leanne | Copyright 2004 The Press. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The Government has paid more than $2.5 million for a 10,000- hectare slice of spectacular Canterbury high country, stretching from mountain tops to the shores of a lake.

The land, formerly Clent Hills Station bordering Lake Heron, west of Ashburton, will be managed by the Department of Conservation (DOC).

When the station came on the market, three neighbouring farmers convinced the Government-backed Nature Heritage Fund to come on board as part of their tender for the land.

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