HIGH LOOKOUT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 93, 19 April 1940, Page 5

HIGH LOOKOUT.

VIEWS SIX COUNTIES. CENTENNIAL MEMORIAL COMMEMORATES OLD SETTLERS. A :-ul>-t.antial]y -built lookout platform, commanding a wide panoramic view of the fertile counties of Manawatu. Oroua. Kiwitea, Pohangina, and Rangitikei. the boroughs of Fcilding and Martin and the town districts of Hunierville, Bulls and M.uigaweka, is to be oflicially unveiled on Mount -Stewart to-morrow afternoon. Originally conceived by the Sandon Old Boye' Association as a pioneers* memorial and later provisionally accepted as one of the three provincial Centennial memorials, it was finally "relegated" to the status of a "district" memorial. Losing none of its g-lamour by reason of the inevitable delays thus caused, the proposal was eventually heartily adopted by the different local authoritiej= in the Centennial district known a« Zone E and comprising the areas enumerated above. Many residents of Pa!mer ? ton North and" Kairanga county also subscribed. The structure occupies a commanding site on Mount Stewart, situated on the main highway l>etween Feildin«r and Sanson. Mount Stewart overlooks the area of MX counties comprising one of the most fertile and productive tracts of country in the Dominion. Coincident with the memorial vremony w j]l - ;>p , hp openiii- ..)" the Sandon Old B<.y«" <-o n i-f Initioii in the nature of a direction finder.