PROMOTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 276, 21 November 1932, Page 5

PROMOTION.

N.Z. LEAGUE'S INTEREST.

SHACKS AT WAIKAREMOANA,

At a meeting of the New Zealand Tourist League on Saturday, at which Mr. G. M. Fowlds presided, reference was made to the desirability of controlling the building of shacks around Lake Waikaremoana.

Mr. George Finn said that the shacks were often as big a disfigurement of the landscape as hoardings.

The chairman said that during a visit to the lake last year lie noticed the Lands Department had eet aside a small bay as a camping area, but eome definite policy should be adopted in the matter. The bush extended to the lake edge in most directions, and there was always the risk that carelessness or foolish pranks would cause a devastating fire and ruin the bush scenery.

The secretary was instructed to approach the Scenery Preservation Board, the A.A.A. and other bodies in the matter. Waipoua Forest. The value of busliland scenery was emphasised by Mr. H. A. Johnston, who said that many oversea visitors made inquiries about the i Waipoua kauri forest. He felt sure that the Northland would reap a rich harvest from the forest in the next few years.

The meeting expressed the opinion the forest should b reserved as a scenic asset, and that if any timbr trees were removed, only the experts of the Forestry Service, acting in conjunction with tourist interests, should act.

The General Manager of the NewZealand Railways, replying to the league's representations, stated that the Department was not in a financial position to order transfers of the New Zealand coat of arms for use in ornamenting railway carriages, but it was not proposed to order further supplies of the transfers of the Imperial coat of arms.

Economy Report. _ The report of the Economy Commission, in so far as it dealt with the Tourist Department, was traversed. Mr. Finn said that there was an absence of set policy in tourist matters that reacted very adversely. At one time the cry was to abolish the Tourist Department, and hand over the work to the Railway Department. That policy was abandoned for very obvious reasons. There might be a Minister in control of the Department who was energetic, only to be followed by another Minister who was wholly indifferent to the development of the tourist traffic. The opinion was freely expressed that in the cases of Te Aroha and Queens town d^elopmenfc. .- J| Fllcil.Lv'