NORTH EGMONT HOSTEL
ADDITIONS OPENED MINISTER’S PRAISE Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Sunday. Additions to the North Egmont hosI telry, in the form of a new lounge and ! other improvements, which cost j £1,970, were officially opened yesterday by the Minister in charge of the Tourist Department, the Hon. W. Nosworthy. The Minister complimented the people of New Plymouth for guaranteeing and actually subscribing a large part of the various sums, ending in £IO,OOO being raised, when the company was recently formed to carry out the improvements opened yesterday, and to popularise the mountain resort by laying out tennis courts, erecting a billiard room and installing a wireless set. The Minister also expressed pleasure at the progress of the new mountain road, which winds through four miles of beautiful bush, and which is being relaid and bitumenised right up to the hostel to carry two-way traffic.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 319, 2 April 1928, Page 14
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