ROAD WANTED TO MOUNTAIN HOUSE
EGMONT NATIONAL PARK GOVERNMENT GRANT SOUGHT Press Association. STRATFORD, Thursday. The Minister of Lands, the Hon. A. D. McLeod, arrived at Stratford this morning. After a trip to the Mountain House he conferred with Reform Party delegates from the district. After lunch the Minister received a, deputation from the Egmont National Park Board, supported by representatives of local bodies and local organisations. asking for the reinstatement of the grant made in 1920 for metalling the road to the Mountain House. Mr. McLeod said he could not promise that a free grant would be made. He thought the finance of national park boards should be placed on a sound basis. He did not desire to do a r aj :., % r th , local effort . but a system should be instituted under which park boards would know definitelv what subsidy would be granted on money ?er S^tw£°C^. e “ ortS ’ He Would conferwßh the Minister of Public Works The road had been suspended in 1921 owing to financial stringency, said the Minister, and a vote placed on the estimates again in 1925, but he knew of e pnhi‘i e"w J,f^ cults of tie Minister of Public Works. Perhaps they were greater even than in 19i| or 1925. However, the deputation’s request had hi*warmest sympathy. A&
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 363, 25 May 1928, Page 14
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