WHANGAREI HARBOUR BOARD
PRESERVATION OF SCENERY From Our Own Correspondent WHANGAREI, Thursday. Tho monthly meeting of the Whangarei Harbour Board was held this morning. It was decided. to have plans prepared for a beacon on Wellington Rock. A donation of five guineas is to bo made to th© Whangarei Regatta Association. The Commissioner of Crown Lands. Auckland, advised that at a meeting* of the Scenery Preservation Board held recently at Wellington it was resolved that an area of private land at Bream Head should be acquired for scenic purposes, provided it could be purchased at a reasonable price and that the local bodies defray half the cost of the purchase. The harbour board was asked to ascertain the bedrock price of land and the financial assistance likely to be forthcoming from local bodies. Mr. P. Gardener said the land was of historic interest and men Honed in Captain Cook’s book. It was a pity to destroy the scenery there. Mr. J. Holmes proposed that members of the various local bodies visit the spot and see what could be done.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 845, 13 December 1929, Page 6
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