PHOTO: BAYLEYS Kawakawa Station, in South Wairarapa, is under offer from an unnamed Kiwi buyer.
The Chinese owner of a Wairarapa sheep station wants to sell it to a Kiwi buyer – but that won’t stop an extraordinary dispute over public access, which has now reached the courts.
For more than two years, officials and the Chinese owner of the sprawling $3.3 million Kawakawa Station, at Cape Palliser, have been deadlocked over access to a forest hut and tramping route.
Mediation to resolve the dispute failed late last year and triggered legal action.
Hong-Kong based Eric Chun Yu Wong has decided to sell the station back to an un-named Kiwi buyer.
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