ROAD TO SOUNDS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1934, Page 17

ROAD TO SOUNDS

MINISTER'S HOPES

A REPORT SHORTLY

(By Telegraph—Press Association ) CHEISTOHUECH, ildieh 27. A scheme fdvouied by the ilinistei m ehaige of the Tounst Dcpaitmcnt, (the Hon. A. Hamilton) iqi opening up the bound') ami the southern part of the Wc^l Coast to touiiit tufui. iioui O'veicms ami fi om the north is ttill being uncsttgatctl b> the Public Woiks Do partment, and Mr. Hamilton hopes to rcicivo blioitly a Lomprehenaivo iepoit on Hi puutiuibility. In an interview today, Mr. Hamilton b>iid that he still hoped to sec his dicams. 1 called. It wouldibe costly to build the roads he had in mmxl, but he «as sure they would pio\e ot gicat jd i \ antage to tho feouth Island and to the countiy is am hole.

The ui^t scheme, the completion of the Te Auau-MUfoid giouiul load up Uolljioid VdUeV and by timncl through Gcitiudc Suddlo was definitely within the rang© ot possibility, ifr. Hamilton said,that he ha,d hopes of pushing on this -work if funds permitted and if lepoits trom the district weie favourable. Hi. John "Wood, assistant engineer, to the PubUe Woiks Department,-,ivas at piesent in the Milford region in company with a paity oi surveyois, who had for the last thice or iour months been planning j. tunnel load, and Mr. Hamilton expected a lepoit in. the neai future. t The seuond scheme, the coiisti uction o± a load down th© Holljioid Valley to the "West Coast and up tbq coast to HokitiLa, a mioie ambitious,pioiect, but it appealed to be quite piac ticable. When Mi. Wood and-MrvT.'^J".- Ball, of fhet Public ATo'iTks'DepaitAent at Dunedin, made tlieir "flight over this legion' eaily in the month, thoy "had iound little to pi event tho building'o'f such a load cither along the coast itbelf or fuither inland. Mr. Hamilton said that the engineers had made, a eomprehensivo suivey of tho district flora, the air, flying low over tho trees in some parts." No full iepoit had yet been, made on the subject, and Mr. Hamilton said ■ lie was hoping- to get in touch with Mr. Wood in the south.