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New Zealand authorities have been accused of vandalism for having stripped ivory keys of an antique piano shipped into the country by its British owner.
The 123-year-old upright piano should have been exempted from strict rules aimed at the owner Julian Paton, an English heart disease researcher who emigrated to New Zealand with his wife and two children, was unaware he needed a special verification certificate for the family inheritance. According to local reports,
"We are disappointed and horrified as a family within the bureaucracy," Paton told Stuff.co.nz, adding that they had "followed all the rules that they had. we were told to follow. " According to the report, the Department of Conservation said the British authorities had considered that the instrument had been illegally exported from the UK and illegally imported into New Zealand.
The Herald Journal The department's decision as a "Kafkaesque bureaucracy" has done little to improve New Zealand's reputation.
Paton MP David Seymour said the saga was outrageous and the removal of ivory was vandalism.
"I am embarrassed as a New Zealander and as a local MP that is how we welcome people, confiscating their family legacies so that their children can not play the piano", was -he says. He intends to fight against the order of the government that he also pays for the removal and dumping of ivory.
New Zealand is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which seeks to protect many endangered animals and plants.
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