A TOURIST TRACK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 908, 30 August 1910, Page 6

A TOURIST TRACK.

■ V ■ ; ■■•■■'! ■ ".;'-"-''. : -'iJ"'-' ' - ''■ ■':'■•■' ' '.' V fEOM WqODSIDE TO : MT. HECTOE. '.;.. ■ .Assistance in' making a tourist track' .γ-from Wopdside-to -Mount' .Hector was : vurged by a deputation frim ' Grey town, . .infrodnced.to;tho;Prime Minister yester■■.■idey.'afternoon, by Messrs.' Buchanan and ■■■- Field,. M.P.V A track from tlio valley ■: to Mount being made, by tho ; local.,committee,' , vdnd' the 'deputation; asked for the allocation of. JE7O, accrued / "thirds"- from the Featherston: County, to V;Tie' applied for: the above purpose. The :-• deputation also asked/that! a-section of 20 acres'.of ,;Crowri,lands'be vested in. the. ; ,County! Council, in aid .of £he. project, and also:'for-the expenditure, of a surii . . of : ,£100; to form a track from 'Mount' Reeves,to MpuntjHebtor, thus giving a } track from.Greytown to Otaki. A'grant of .£SO lias already; been secured by Mr..-Field,-member for Otaki, for work on the Otaki side, from the point . known, as the Otaki Forks. '•;.• ' . •"'.!■ .Mr. :■ Buchanan urged that the Waira- ■ rapa' had, been left out in the cold in v *egard- to. tourist i matters, . whilst Mr. !;.. Field'urged that : the track ■■■:. would' be.'of , advantage not 'only from' the ; ■ .tourist standpoint,'but from the stock- ; track point of "view. ■':', Another argument in favour, of the.-track was that, the '/Alpine -scenery■■' en : route was,-in many ■'. respects equal-to anything' that- could be ■■: found in any part; : of . New' Zealand." Owing to.; the absence'of tracks, how- . ever,-it had been reserved for enthusiasts. !.:-It was also pointed out by Mr.'Buchanan •■ that the Acclimatisation Society, had been liberating deer there'recently; and there were great possibilities of sport iii ;. the-,vicinity. •'. ■'. : ..■;■-'■ ' ■'-. ■"'.•■'■ The Prime. Minister said the -FeatherConnty -Council should apply to the : ." land Board-to-have the .£7O of "thirds" . lexponded in .the idirection proposed. If that was' done he would be willing .to : Vmake a grant of .another >£100,.: provided ..."it'was- supplemented;,by local contribu- ... tions amounting to i3O. He-would look into- the-.question';.of-'the Teserve.